Worst of all: They did not appreciate the glaring dishonesty at the heart of it all. They seemed to think that Americans wouldn’t mind that they had pretended Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack,” that they actually orchestrated a behind-the-scenes switcheroo, that the party that portrayed itself as the nation’s answer to fascism nominated its standard-bearer without consulting a single voter. They just figured that no one would mind, that most Americans would feel the way they felt—happy that they finally had a viable candidate to challenge Donald Trump.
