The Message in Biden's Failures: 'Get. Out!'

Given the many thumping absurdities that inflict the country today it’s not a great surprise that the media speculate ad nauseum about the Democratic presidential ticket in 2024. Will it be Biden and Kamala again, or Biden and Buttigieg? Or maybe, as one of the thicker Timesmen recently suggested, Biden and Cheney?

It's a safe bet that there are millions of Americans who are gobsmacked by this kind of talk, since the more pressing and realistic narrative would center on the likelihood that Biden won’t even make it to the end of his current term. After all, how much more evidence of his unfitness is tolerable?

Even a cursory review of Biden’s mental decline; the collapse of his policies, domestic and foreign; the gathering geopolitical threats posed by China and Russia; Biden’s role in the corrupt activities of his son, Hunter; and the Democrats fear of being decimated in the elections in 2022 and 2024, make it clear that the time is coming — and certainly before election day in 2024 — when Biden will no longer be in the White House. He may be in his Delaware house, or the big house, or an institution, but surely not the White House.

Indeed, a likely bipartisan effort to move Biden on down that road would already be underway but for the ghastly fact that that would mean Kamala Harris becomes the …commander in chief! Still, that can’t be an impossible problem to overcome. Given enough money, and pressure from Democrat bigwigs, it’s likely that Kamala could be bought off, with Biden resigning immediately after a new vice president was nominated and confirmed.

The likelihood of this turn of events is not to be found just in Biden’s congressional failures or the pathetic way he is seen around the world. It is suggested by his and the Democrat’s collapse in opinion polls, most importantly among Hispanics and Independents, and in the growing contempt for individuals and institutions, like the legacy media, that have promoted his and the progressives woke initiatives.

CNN, for example, lost 90 percent of its viewers in the first week of the new year, and most of the rest of the so-called elite media are running scared from the growing evidence of their past journalistic crimes such as their years-long false reports of Trump’s collusion with the Russians, the source of the Coronavirus’s origin, and their reports that Hunter Biden’s shocking laptop data was “Russian disinformation.”

Add to this the despicable role of the progressive social media in promotion of cancel culture, and the racist and duplicitous doctrine of CRT, and what we have now is a country and its people bitterly angry about Democrats and progressives everywhere.

If this thesis is correct, what might be the timelines? Let me hazard the guess that April, 2023 sounds about right. By that time, five months after the Republicans have swept the floor of Democrats and captured comfortable majorities in the House and Senate in the midterm elections, the Democrats will be in full meltdown mode.

Congress will not be giving Biden an inch on anything — nominations or legislation — and will challenge every executive order he issues. In addition, there will have begun an endless series of congressional hearings of Fauci and the CDC, Hillary Clinton and the FBI’s role in the illegal spying on Donald Trump, and scores of other Democrat misdoings since 2016.

In these circumstances, and only nineteen months at that time until the 2024 presidential election, the Democrats in congress, along with their dark money funders, will have no appetite for any more of Biden, or Kamala, or the many banana peels the Democrats could slip on in a convention where Biden was still president.

There are other important developments, like the nascent rise of liberal intellectuals against progressivism, but the view from here is that the table is already set for Biden’s early retirement by the crushing political upheaval consuming the country.

Patrick Maines, is a retired think tank president. He writes about the media and politics, and was the creator of the national celebration called Free Speech Week, now in its seventeenth year.