No matter the 2024 elections result, no one will mourn the end of Joe Bidens presidency

Americans don’t agree on much these days but no matter the election results, one outcome is certain: There will be no mourning over the end of Joe Biden’s presidency. Democrats, maybe even more than Republicans, will be delighted to see him go.Perhaps a bipartisan chorus in Washington will break out into song with the words, “Hit the road, Joe, and don’t come back no more.”Biden’s single term was so disastrous, both at home and abroad, that his party made history by forcing him off the ticket months after he’d won the nomination, a move that sparked universal relief among the faithful, including big donors. Party leaders tried to put a smiley face on the brutal putsch with orchestrated chants of “Thank you, Joe” at the August convention, but the harder job was hiding a sitting president from the public. There was little choice lest his mumbles and stumbles remind voters that his replacement, Vice President Kamala Harris, was part of the conspiracy to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline from voters.But like a bad penny, he kept surfacing and his most recent appearances were a national embarrassment.When last seen, the man who took office promising to unite America was calling the millions of Donald Trump supporters “garbage.” Then he lied about it and aides changed the White House transcript to cover up the truth.Recall, too, that just days before Trump was wounded in a summer assassination attempt, Biden had said that it was “time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.” The cynical recklessness was a feature of his misbegotten tenure.

He had his attorney general break 200 years of precedence by indicting the former president, all while the Justice Department slow-walked clear evidence of criminality against Biden’s son and shielded the president himself from scrutiny about his family’s influence-peddling scheme.The man who throughout his career worshiped at the altar of political norms and traditions ended by trashing them in a bid to lo...