A famous quote attributed to a German World War I staff officer may best fit the mood of the fierce cadre of Never Trump proponents following President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27. Referring to the military burden imposed by an alliance with the crumbling Austria-Hungary empire, the officer lamented that “we are shackled to a corpse.”
It’s a political admission Adam Kinzinger and friends dearly do not want to make today.
“Biden lost the debate, but I’m still voting for him,” reads the headline to Kinzinger’s piece in the anti-Trump publication The Bulwark the day after the Atlanta debacle. Kinzinger was under no illusions about how horrible the man he publicly endorsed in the lead-up to the debate had performed. “Biden’s open-mouthed, confused look was not helpful,” the former Republican congressman…
