I'm at a loss as to why – when saying that Biden's visibly aged in the last several months – no one brings up the toll that Hunter's conviction has to have taken on him. One son dead, the other in a heap of trouble that he can't do a thing about? That would be enough to make anyone age – and the guy’s already in his eighties for fuck’s sake. Congressional Republicans have been trying to break the guy since before he was sworn in – or at least break his spirit. We saw the results of their chicanery in the debate.

As for what I think the next month looks like? While I'm still in the "time to move aside" camp, Biden is, at present, doing what he's good at: being a canny (if glacially-moving) politician and a scrapper. He's using this crisis as a way to reinvigorate his campaign, show he's still got more of that underdog fighter (who happens to be the incumbent president) left in him; if this doesn't move the needle, I anticipate he'll drop out before the convention (if he's planning an exit, he's waiting for Tumor to announce his VP and then use his own exit as a way to take attention away from the Tumor and his successive toady, and the RNC) and pass the torch to Kamala – but I hope it does work: Everyone loves a good underdog tale – but everyone also loves a graceful exit – which, in all likelihood, would push him back into the lead and then make everyone want him to come back...