Jill Biden is drunk on her husband’s power

There are few people who hold such little power on paper but so much power in practice as first lady Jill Biden does.

As President Joe Biden continues to decline physically and mentally, it is Jill Biden who wields increasing influence over her husband and, by extension, the nation at large.

It is Jill Biden and the president's son Hunter Biden who are eager to ensure that the 82-year-old president with declining cognitive abilities is the Democratic Party's nominee for president in the November election. But it is also Jill Biden who treats her husband as a kindergarten student who finally learned how to write his name.

The truth is that Jill Biden enjoys being first lady of the United States so much that she is perfectly at peace with ignoring her husband's diminished condition, so long as it ensures that her celebrity status and political influence are maintained.

Case in point is the new Vogue cover story that fawns over the first lady as the second coming of Jackie Kennedy if the matriarch of Camelot were a part-time college professor at a community college, teachers union member, and the primary surrogate of her husband's campaign.

But it is the first paragraph of the piece, although written entirely from the perspective of the author Maya Singer, that paints a perfect picture of Jill Biden's addiction to the role she has sought since her husband first launched a campaign for president in 1987.

"If you want to know what power feels like, try to get yourself driven around in a motorcade," Singer wrote. "Flashing police chaperone lights form a perimeter as you blaze down an empty highway, waiting cars backed up on entry ramps as you pass. It’s as if the world is holding its breath. For you. Also, rules don’t apply: On a cool spring day, driving down suburban Minneapolis side streets, we run red lights and whip round curves so fast I can barely take in the commonplace American view."

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This is the world that Jill Biden inhabits. A world where everything stops the moment she enters a room and waits on her. A world where she can pose for fashion magazines, design the White House Christmas decorations, and tell her husband's political advisers that they have lost the plot.

Being married to the man who occupies the White House and sits behind the Resolute Desk comes with a lot of perks. And Jill Biden is not about to give that up, even if it means her increasingly senile husband must be the standard-bearer for a party that would likely have a better chance without him.