WALL STREET JOURNAL
I Come to Bury Biden, Not to Praise Him
by Peggy Noonan
July 11, 2019

Three small points we labor mightily to connect: Joe Biden has me thinking about . . . Julius Caesar. The political class of Rome wanted Caesar gone and successfully dispatched him with 23 wounds. But the conspirators themselves came to unhappy ends—Caesar’s base hated them and chased them out of town! Nobody loves an assassin. The only political survivors were Caesar’s designated heir and the leaders who didn’t join the conspiracy. That is the predicament of the 23 contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination who are not named Joe Biden. They want the front-runner gone. But they don’t really want to be the one who does him in. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT