Joe Biden has been in Washington D.C. for 52 years. Multiple generations have been born who have never known a time when Biden wasn’t a figure in national politics. Multiple generations of Democrats have risen through the Senate in the time since he first went to Washington D.C.
All of that is to say that Joe Biden has not been a spring chicken since before the end of the Cold War.
This is a man who, by any rational assessment of his past actions, campaigns, statements, and behaviors should never have been a contender for the presidency. The Democratic Party, at one time, had people who were younger and more talented but did not have the right ambition or the right timing to make the leap into that particular type of campaign.
He was a failed presidential contender twice before he finally got in. The first was in 1988, and the second was in 2008. In that second cycle, he dropped out…
