How can it not be a blow to one’s ego when one starts hearing how others are doubting your mental faculties and both publicly and privately questioning your capacity to handle your job?
I have to wonder if Joe Biden isn’t feeling both betrayed and embarrassed by what he’s been hearing lately. Someone in his lofty position probably doesn’t take too kindly to being second-guessed and increasingly discounted.
His options appear to be narrowing—either he circles the wagons and weathers this storm, perhaps to the detriment of desired results in November, or he suppresses his ego and humbly acquiesces to calls for him to step down, in deference to an opportunity for the Dems to field a more attractive and younger candidate who can prevail against Trump.
Sadly, Mr. Biden is feeling more and more like damaged goods, incapable of returning to (much) earlier form.
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