Strange interlude

“President Biden” probably won’t be done inflicting harm on the United States until he leaves office later today. There is yet more to come. At the moment, we have today’s preemptive pardons.

Biden’s “presidency” already seems like a strange interlude in our history. One might have thought that only an avowed enemy of the United States would open our borders and invite the rest of the world to come on down (or up, as the case may be). Along with many other such items one might have thought — items such the proposition that boys and men should be allowed to force themselves into the women’s bathrooms and women’s sports by law — not so.

One might have thought that a man with half a mind to be president would long ago have been exposed and relieved of his duties. Not so either.

The Guardian — or The Grauniad, as Ed Driscoll prefers — adds this to the rapidly expanding record:

Dean Phillips, a Minnesota congressman, announced that he would challenge Biden in the party primary, citing poll numbers and the president’s age as reasons to pass on the torch to a new generation. He told the Washington Post newspaper: “We’re at grave risk of another Trump presidency. I’m doing this to prevent a return of Donald Trump to the White House.”

In public, Phillips was ridiculed. In private, others shared his concerns. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, recalled receiving a call from a Democratic senator in late January or early February 2024.

“I said, ‘Is there any particular reason why you called me? I’d like to know.’ He said, ‘You do realise, off the record, that Joe Biden is not going to be our nominee?’ I was stunned. I said, ‘What, how, why?’ He said, ‘I just was at a meeting with him with several other senators and he couldn’t even function. We can’t run him.’”

Sabato added that the senator in question tried to raise the issue, which angered the White House. “He was punished, as several of them were. They gave him the cold shoulder for a while. The point is that a lot of people had figured it out but they didn’t care. I’m stunned that they got away with it and have produced term two for Trump and it’s going to be the longest four years of our life.”

That’s strange, but why didn’t Sabato have anything to say about Biden’s vacancy at the time?

It’s all part of the strange interlude. Unfortunately for us, this strange interlude ran even stranger and longer than Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act play with that title.

At Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds reminds us this morning that, by contrast with Sabato, in February 2024 Glenn was calling for consequences for those in on the coverup. Also by contrast with Sabato, Glenn was right.

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