After spending years defending him, campaigning for him, endorsing him, and standing beside him while anyone who questioned his fitness was attacked as a conspiracy theorist, Hillary Clinton now says Biden made a “terrible mistake” by running again. That is convenient, but the problem is that Biden did not act alone. The entire Democratic establishment knew exactly what was happening and saw his cognitive decline. They heard the incoherent speeches, watched the debates. Yet they all marched in lockstep behind a man they insisted was perfectly capable of serving another four years.
Clinton is really attempting to do is rewrite history. Biden did not force the Democratic Party to rally behind him. The party leadership, the donors, the consultants, the media allies, and every major power center in Washington actively protected him from criticism. Anyone who raised concerns about his age or cognitive condition was dismissed. They shut down a meaningful primary process and effectively told Democratic voters that there would be no debate, no competition, and no alternative. Then, after the disastrous debate exposed what millions of Americans had already seen with their own eyes, panic set in. The same people who spent years telling the public everything was fine suddenly discovered there was a problem.
Then came the greatest political bait-and-switch in modern American history. Biden withdrew only months before the election. Dems immediately installed Kamala Harris, leaving voters with a candidate they never selected. No one voted for Kamala during her first bid as presidential candidate but Democratic voters were told to accept the decision and remain silent. Clinton now argues that another Democrat could have beaten Trump.
“We would have had a real contest,” Clinton said about what would’ve happened if Biden didn’t run. “And very sadly I believe whoever emerged from that contest, whether it was the vice president or a governor or a senator or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump.”
Precisely why the Democrats lost: the party is completely out of touch with the wishes of the people. They abandoned working-class voters and became the party of divisive politics. They ignored growing concerns over inflation, immigration, crime, foreign policy, and economic insecurity. Biden spent his presidency pushing forth the globalist Build Back Better agenda, abandoning domestic interests. Democrats spent years lecturing the public instead of listening to them and then seemed shocked when voters revolted.
Clinton will think of losing to Trump on her deathbed; she simply cannot let it go. After 2016 there was a seemingly endless list of culprits. Now, after 2024, the blame falls squarely on Biden. Yet Clinton herself endorsed Biden’s campaign, defended him publicly, and later endorsed Kamala Harris when he withdrew. She did it for her career and not the people. The same political class that created the disaster is now trying to convince everyone they were warning about it all along. Americans are not that foolish. The public watched the cover-up in real-time. They watched party leaders insist Biden was fine. They watched them pivot overnight to Harris. They watched them demand loyalty at every stage. Now they want to pretend they were innocent bystanders. That may be the biggest insult of all.