After twisting painfully in the wind, potentially bringing election disaster down upon the Democrats, Joe Biden finally did the right thing. “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” he said in a statement posted on X on July 21.

In a column published in September of last year, I sadly, but accurately, suggested the U.S. president might be suffering an age-related disease affecting cognition, which I said would be a potentially fatal blow to the election prospects of Democrats if exposed too close to the 2024 presidential election.