Last week, I was having coffee with a friend who referred to the gaggle of white liberal women often surrounding Justin Wilson, the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, as “AWFLs.” I thought she was using the word “awfuls” to describe people who abandon their principles to get power or simply to sit near it. As it turns out, I was close. Affluent, white, female liberals are, according to Democratic strategist James Carville, though not by this acronym, so annoying and repulsive that they’re driving centrist voters, particularly men, away from the Democratic Party.

Enter Jill Biden.