Molly Ball: “The fallout from last week’s presidential debate has thrust the Democratic Party into a spiraling crisis. Yet many in the party view the current reckoning as sadly inevitable—the product of years of defensive refusal by the president and his protective inner circle to acknowledge the decline in Biden’s public presentation that has long been obvious to voters.”
“Now, insiders admit, the party is reaping the consequences of its long failure to confront an issue that was only ever fated to get worse.”
Said one longtime Democratic operative: “This was all predictable, and it pisses me off that everyone is acting shocked now. The shocking thing is that people engaged in this deception, or delusion, or both, for so long.”
