Joe Biden reemerges to prove . . . Dems were right to dump him

In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it. The man who shuffled off stage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragi-comedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back on to it. His mini-rehabilitation tour in the media is, in accustomed Biden fashion, doing more to undermine his case for himself than buttress it.He’s not particularly cogent and feels like a dusty artifact that was, until accidentally discovered, forgotten in the basement of the Smithsonian somewhere. It is Biden’s burden to explain why he thought he could run for president again in 2024 and only re-considered when the hour was late and a revolt of his party gave him no choice. The former president can’t say the truth, which is that he selfishly put aside every consideration except his own grasping desire to cling to power.

And so, he has to prevaricate and rationalize. According to Biden, he was a victim of his own prowess.He told the BBC that he was “so successful on our agenda” that it only made sense to keep his foot on the accelerator.“It was hard to say now I’m going to stop,” he said.

“Things moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away.”It is true that Biden spent an ungodly amount of money, but a $7 trillion federal budget didn’t make him any younger or more capable of serving.Believing your own press releases is bad, but believing a tight coterie of family and aides that has no incentive to be honest with you is even worse.Biden did the latter. When asked by the BBC if he should have dropped out sooner, he insisted, “I don’t think it would’ve mattered.

We left at a time when we had a good candidate.She was fully funded.”This is willfully clueless.

If Biden had said he wouldn’t run again in good order in 2023, Democratic voters would have had a chance to have their say about who would be the party’s nominee via the primaries; instead, the demo...