The Joe Biden scandal set off a Democratic civil war that will tear the party to pieces

The long national nightmare that was Joe Biden’s presidency is over.But the long political nightmare induced by Biden’s final act in Washington continues to divide Democrats.“Original Sin,” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new tome about the former president’s ill-fated re-election campaign, has opened yet another fissure in a party full of them.The book sheds further light on the conspiracy to pull the wool over voters’ eyes and saddle them with a half-functioning executive.In the process, it indicts every major administration official who served under Biden by revealing that the president’s decline has been in progress since his 2020 campaign.And that while they all but compared him to Superman, outsiders recognized his senility on sight.Some Democrats are rightly outraged by their peers’ dishonesty — and ready to use it to their political advantage.Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles mayor and current California gubernatorial candidate, has already turned his fire on two Biden alums: Xavier Becerra, who has announced his own campaign for the governor’s mansion, and Kamala Harris, who is choosing between that race and a third presidential bid.“What did Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra know, when did they know it, and most importantly, why didn’t either of them speak out?” Villaraigosa railed in a fiery statement last week.Saying the two had “betrayed” their party, Villaraigosa argued their “cover-up” of Biden’s condition led “directly” to Trump’s election victory — and called on Harris and Becerra to “hold themselves accountable and apologize to the American people.”Similarly, Dean Phillips, the former Minnesota congressman who mounted a much-maligned primary bid against Biden, has argued the Democrats can only redeem themselves by making “everyone that was aware of Biden’s condition ..

.come clean.”“No more evasions.

No more insistence that he was sharp when you met him,” Phillips wrote at The Free...