Biden rose from some legitimately earned bad showings in the first several states in order to accomplish something that everybody already thought he was going to do. We patted him on the back and endowed his earned, but expected victory with the notion of momentum and now we're here.

The interesting thing is everybody is pretending that it's not a real possibility that he'll sound like his brain doesn't work next time he's asked to speak extemporaneously. We've all seen him in the debates over the last several months and in some of his sort of surreal showdowns with regular voters over fairly normal disagreements. And I'm not saying this in a "he can't lead" kind of way (because his actual beliefs are sufficient evidence of that) but in a "he may reveal that he does not have a full grasp of reality on live TV by telling a made-up story about a civil rights figure and calling a debate moderator dollface."