The only reason Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee rather than President Joe Biden is that Biden no longer has the mental capacity to do the job. But because Harris can’t admit this obvious fact, because it would expose her complicity in Biden’s lie, she was doomed to be an inherently inauthentic candidate.

This inescapable fact was driven home by two events this week, the first in Concord, New Hampshire, where Biden, in a rare campaign appearance for but not with Harris, told Democratic campaign workers that with respect to former President Donald Trump, “We’ve gotta lock him up.”