Mark Twain was said to have written: “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
Today, we look back a half-century to see what precedents exist for how Democratic power brokers just might address the problem of keeping their party in power, without relying on either a mentally challenged president or an intellectually challenged vice president.
Make no mistake about it. There are powerful Democratic forces lurking behind Joe Biden’s throne who even now are plotting ways to shove him to the side. His performance at the Group of Seven conference in Italy, where Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had to take him by the arm after he wandered off from his colleagues, might have been the final straw.
The problem they face is how to avoid elevating to the presidency the nation’s first female and first nonwhite vice president without losing support from the Democrats’ most reliable constituencies.
With these people, no strategy is off the table in order to retain political power.