By ending his bid for a second term, President Biden did something Donald Trump could never do — he put his country’s interests over his personal ambitions. Biden showed Americans what real patriotism looks like.

Biden’s selfless act has thoroughly discombobulated Republicans, who reacted like kids at a birthday bash suddenly deprived of their pinata. Trump, who enjoys kicking people when they are down, huffed that Biden is America’s worst president ever.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) also descended into partisan hackery, insisting absurdly that Biden resign immediately. Nutty conspiracy theories took wing across MAGA world, including the claim that the “deep state” engineered Biden’s ouster from the race.

Having invested heavily in tearing down Biden, Republicans are irate that his departure takes their preferred target away and resets the presidential race.

Trailing in the polls and wounded by his wobbly performance in the June 27 debate, Biden reluctantly acknowledged that public anxieties about his age and diminished capacity were sinking his reelection chances — and boosting Trump’s.

His 11th-hour exit, less than a month before the Democratic nominating convention opens in Chicago, solves that problem. But it leaves his party with little time to audition an impressive field of potential replacements, including Vice President Kamala Harris, and pick the one with the best chance of beating Trump.

Rather than risk an open convention, Democrats are stampeding to Harris, whom Biden has endorsed. Reportedly,........

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