Anointing & Coronation

President Biden held on for far too long, but perhaps that won’t matter in the end. If a Democrat wins the presidency in November, most Americans will probably forget his final paroxysms of self-delusion, as well as those of his inner circle. And if Trump wins, we’ll surely have other things to think about.

Biden’s decision to resign his campaign has been greeted with conspiratorial howls from Trumpistan. Apparently, the President’s capitulation to biological and electoral reality is proof that the Democratic elite have subverted the will of the people. Many are even calling it a coup.

Take a moment to consider that these complaints are coming from people who believe that President Biden is currently demented and unfit to govern—which means that they think he should abandon, not merely his campaign, but the office of the presidency, ceding the latter (at a minimum) to Vice President Harris. Would that be a coup too?