By For two years, the leadership of the Democratic party has buried its head in the sand about this looming electoral catastrophe.
Since President Biden’s shaky performance in the first head-to-head debate a fortnight ago, a few elected Democrats — and celebrity donors such as George Clooney — have publicly called on President Biden to step aside. But most have not.
The majority are now compelled to look straight down a camera lens and insist with a straight face that Biden is not only on top form today but will be fit to serve in the world’s most demanding job in four and a half years. They are saying this of a man born at the height of the Second World War, in the same year
