All it took for Democrats to avoid getting in the terrible fix they’ve put themselves and the country in was not to lie about Joe Biden’s mental and physical state. If they’d told the truth and acknowledged what everyone was seeing in real time, it’s very likely he would have been forced not to run again.

But they thought they could spin, deny, and gaslight their way around reality, and reality finally became undeniable tonight, even for them. The first step in getting Biden out is to make him agree to go, otherwise there is no realistic mechanism to oust him, and one assumes it is Jill who needs to be convinced. She could have kept this from happening in the first place.