DEMOCRATS PRAISE BIDEN AS THEY PUSH HIM OUT THE DOOR. President Joe Biden‘s half-century career in electoral politics comes to an end Monday night in Chicago. It won’t be voluntary. The 81-year-old president had planned for this week to be the moment he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for reelection. Instead, party insiders muscled him out of the race. He’ll get the gold watch on the first night of the Democratic National Convention and then be escorted off the stage.

All this will be done amid lavish tributes to Biden. The more central the insider’s role in pushing the president out, the more florid the praise. Eighty-four-year-old Nancy Pelosi, who told Biden he could either leave the easy way or the hard way — his choice! — is actually suggesting that Biden’s likeness be added to Mt. Rushmore. Others are falling over themselves to testify to what a great president Biden has been.