President Joe Biden’s flailing reelection campaign shows that blind party loyalty to the status quo can, in fact, cost parties elections.

All the alarms are blaring about Biden’s campaign, given that he is consistently polling behind former President Donald Trump despite having beaten Trump in 2020, Biden being the incumbent, and Trump being Trump. A Rasmussen Reports poll found that 54% of Democrats would like to replace Biden on the ballot, while a February poll from ABC News and the Washington Post found that 73% of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve as president.