The Category Five meltdown among Democratic operatives triggered by President Joe Biden's implosion during his first 2024 debate against former President Donald Trump has only grown more panicked since the sun rose. After being inconveniently smacked in the face by reality , at least half a dozen columnists at the New York Times — de facto operatives by another name — are calling on the president to drop out of his reelection bid, and the actual party personnel are reportedly scrambling to find a way to replace Biden.
But once again, the reality of the situation is inconvenient for the partisans who spent years calling video clips demonstrating Biden's senility "cheapfakes" and genuine fears over his precipitous decline mere misinformation. The fact is that Biden has legally secured 3,894 delegates, or 99% in all, and he only requires 1,976 delegates to win the primary. The DNC is legally and practically incapable of replacing Biden at the top of the ticket unless he chooses to step aside voluntarily.
And even if Biden did step aside, any possible replacement would require a minimum of a majority of support from the voting delegates. This leads to the unpleasant reality that in the 2020 fever dream that fueled Biden to promise he would appoint a black woman as his running mate, his vice president is his required heir apparent, both by the popular convention of political succession and the religion of intersectionality.
Pragmatists would likely point out that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro or Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would present a more favorable appeal for the blue wall required for Democrats to secure the Electoral College, but the party governed by the dogma of intersectionality cannot possibly leapfrog the first female, black, and Asian vice president with a white man or — gasp — a white woman without disintegrating the fragile party coalition.
That Biden will be a decade past average male life expectancy by the end of a second term in the White House is hardly a revelation. Don't just take it from my own statistical analysis of the situation, which indicates Biden has a one in three chance of dying in office should he secure a second term . Biden's own primary opponents in 2019 warned that he was too old. Special counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute Biden for breaking the law because he was too old. Voters, for years and years and years , have been sounding the alarm that on top of their hatred of his actual governance, they believe he is too old to effectively govern.
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So it's not that any of this information is new, but rather that Democrats have maintained such a Soviet-style grip on the media that only when Biden demanded 90 minutes against Trump was the result so cataclysmic that the party is finally forced to listen to the public response. That public response has been categorical in its disgust, shock, and pity, not just with Biden's performance but the fact that his handlers let this farce progress to this point.
By shielding Biden from public view for so long, the party has deprived its voters of the chance to replace him democratically. Much like the Never Trumpers of 2016 who harbored delusions of a brokered convention saving them from the inevitable, disillusioned Democrats have approached the bargaining stage of grief. The sooner they move through the depression stage, the sooner they can accept the inevitable: that nobody — not Michelle Obama , not Jack Smith — is saving the party from the president, and it is only the Bidens that can relinquish Biden's grip on power to pass the pedestal to none other than Kamala Harris.
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