Had the Democratic Party actually allowed the public to witness President Joe Biden in the wild after 4 p.m. prior to the formal start to its presidential primary, and had the media any interest in exposing his now-undeniable senility, the best course forward for liberals would be obvious.

If the electorate knows that an 81-year-old candidate cannot speak for longer than four minutes, even with a teleprompter, after sunset without mumbling and stumbling slack-jawed and staring into space, and if that same candidate is now trailing a convicted felon by some six points nationally and even more in battleground states, the pragmatic decision for the Democratic Party would be to pressure the president into forgoing reelection and encouraging an open primary in the hopes of democratically superseding the vice president who is nearly as unpopular as he is.