Well Deutschmeister, you be fatigued. It's fine. You're entitled! No one should forget that Donald Trump is also old, and unfit, or that he is an evil piece of gobshite. I don't know that anyone around here thinks otherwise. Those aren't the issues. The reality that I see from quite far away is that Biden is just not right for the job for another four years, even though he does it pretty well now! A lot of politics involves perception, and when a perception is embedded, even if it's totally wrong, it's hard to shift. And it's not totally wrong.

You might think people like Joe Klein who I'd say has some claim to being expert, is just not worth considering - "so-called" eh? Not like you, right? - but it ain't so.

It seems to me Trump gets plenty of scrutiny. Sure, he could use some more and I look forward to it and the day the turnkey slams the cell door shut. But Biden actually avoided a lot of that for a long time, and in some respects still does, and it isn't helping now. The Trump machine is formidable and takes the tiniest whiff of the slightest possible bad odour and turns it into a sewer.

There is some time before the next election, and the Democrats should use it to get Biden to be what he said he would be before the previous one: a transitional figure. He has the opportunity to massage a new slate and avoid the rancour and foolishness of the last time. If there is not a "Plan B" now he can cook one up. That's the great role he can and should play. The recent suggestion of a Whitmer-led ticket makes sense to me.