What is it about white men, especially older white men, finding it so hard to surrender the spotlight, pass the torch, and stand down?
Joe Biden did the right thing. Finally. But it took Nancy Pelosi's hammer and tongs—and the eventual capitulation of his consiglieri, Ricchetti and Donilon, to get him to do it.
Biden is hardly alone. A 78-year-old egomaniacal Donald Trump can't get out of the way, either. Bernie Sanders turns 83 next month. Chuck Grassley turns 91 in September. The entire U.S. Senate amounts to a mostly male geriatric society. When powerful women (e.g., Dianne Feinstein) hold on for too long, I always think that for these women, it's a kind of revenge for having had to dwell in the patriarchal wilderness for far too many of their prime career years.
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