Like many commentators, I have described the sudden, almost magical elevation of Kamala Harris to the status of presumptive Democratic nominee for president as a "Coup." "What just happened," I wrote on July 23, "Is essentially an anti-democratic coup. Kamala Harris, who got no delegates-zero-when she ran for president in 2020 and was only chosen as Biden's running mate because he had promised to pick a black woman, is on the cusp of being handed the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."
Mark Steyn makes a good point when he observes that, in many ways, what just happened to Joe Biden was not a "Coup" in any ordinary sense.
What change has the Biden-Harris pas-de-deux brought about? Until the very morning of the day he announced his withdrawal, Joe Biden and his team were insisting he was in the race till the end.
For one thing, Biden's poll numbers had been in free fall for months.
For another, the idea that the debate revealed for the first time how cognitively challenged Biden was is ridiculous.
At the time, I noted, Biden's "Painfully obvious flirtation with senility was as much an asset as a liability, because, though it made for some cringeworthy displays of incompetence, it conspired with COVID-19 to allow his handlers to keep him tucked safely away in his basement for most of the campaign." Indeed, I had even earlier compared Biden to the aged Achon, a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief.
The point is that the Council of Elders that manages The Narrative knew from the start that Biden was past it.
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