With the revelation over the past two weeks that President Joe Biden is mentally and physically diminished, Democrats have traveled through all five stages of grief; first, they experienced denial; then anger; then bargaining; next, depression; finally, acceptance.
But what they’re accepting is not Biden’s mental decline. What they’re accepting is the fundamental reality that they bet on the wrong horse.
And what comes next is likely to be even worse.
At first, Democrats engaged in full-scale denial that anything was wrong with Biden. The White House maintained that he was hale and healthy; Democrats in Congress tried to maintain the brave front that his debate failure had been a one-off. This is a stance now relegated to Biden’s immediate family: First lady Jill Biden insists that Joe is just fine; Hunter says that Joe hasn’t lost a step.
But the rest of…
