 There is something fitting about the disarray in which the Democrat Party finds itself, a fearful symmetry in the now fraught relationship between President Biden and panicking friends and colleagues. Biden succeeded because he made towing the party line his life's work. Like all politicians whose egos dwarf their talents, he ascended the greasy pole by slavishly following his party wherever it led. In the 70s and 80s, Democrats were a party of post-Vietnam peacenik activists, so he followed them for that.