If anything unites the Democratic Party today, it is disdain for the “Trumpified” Republicans. Most leading Republican officeholders know that their presidential candidate is unfit for the job, but they won’t say so because they fear Trump’s retribution.

Yet now, weirdly, Democrats are reproducing the same pathology within their own ranks.

The important difference, you’ll respond, is that Biden has had a pretty successful presidency, even if the voters don’t appreciate it. He was better than Obama at getting major legislation through a divided Congress. He has fended off the Russian challenge in Ukraine. And he’s the best climate president the country has ever had.

Yet part of the president’s job is to cultivate voter appreciation. His most urgent task is keeping Trump out of the White House. He is failing at that task. (The Economist estimates his chances of reelection at about one in four.)

Biden wanted these early debates because he badly needed to shake up a presidential race he was losing. Shake it up he did. But now his campaign insists on sleepwalking to its doom. And the most prominent Democrats are........

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