It seems very clear that the Democratic Machine let the old timer run—cruelly, even—until now, once it’s too late to enact the normal procedure of selecting a nominee.
The inevitable has finally happened. Though unprecedented in many ways, it was less surprising than an assassination attempt. After increasingly painful pressure from a growing wave of mutinous Democrats—a thing the country hasn’t seen since Lyndon B. Johnson’s ousting in the ’60s—President Joe Biden bowed out of the race citing the “interests of [his] party and the country.
