The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House

A couple weeks ago, I explained that the media momentum of stories suggesting that Biden step aside were accelerating. At this point, the leaks from top Dems are even more extreme. Pelosi. Schumer. Jeffries. Obama. The messages suggesting a step-aside are consistent and the messages that suggest fighting the good fight are emanating from a smaller and smaller circle. It’s hard to imagine that this headline from The Atlantic (Gift Article) won’t be proved accurate. The End of Biden’s Candidacy Approaches. That said, none of us really knows whether Biden will step down. And none of us really knows how things will play out if he does.

+ The Biden story is about power, media, politics, democracy, and lot of other big issues. But it’s also a story about something else much more core to who we are. It’s a story about aging, and in this case, a powerful person aging in public. Sally Quinn in WaPo (Gift Article) on the decline of Ben Bradlee. My husband was slowing down. He needed protecting. “I don’t pretend to know what ails Joe Biden. I do know what it is like to walk the hard road of age with someone you love.”