After the legacy media were forced to admit the obvious — that President Joe Biden’s mental decline is accelerating faster than a Kennedy approaching a lake — the entire political apparatus flipped overnight. After spending years defending Biden as a deeply qualified, deeply intelligent, and deeply alive political figure, they uniformly dropped their Biden 2024 placards and began sharpening the guillotine.

Biden must be replaced, they declared. The president says he is not quitting the race, but if he were dropped off at a country farm so he could run and play with other politicians who have served their purpose, who would be the next icon of democracy inserted by the Democratic Party as its nominee in November?