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Joe Biden Just Performed a Miracle

On Super Tuesday, he roared back to the front of the pack.

What a difference a few days make. They brought Joe Biden back from the dead.

After a landslide victory in South Carolina on Saturday, he collected a bonanza of important endorsements on Sunday and Monday. Then, on Super Tuesday, when 14 states voted, he did exponentially better than almost anyone predicted. He probably exceeded his own dreams.

Bernie Sanders supposedly had the momentum in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden just stole it. He’s resuscitated, resurrected, resplendent. It’s some kind of miracle.

“I am here to report: We are very much alive!” he exulted in a victory speech, and you could almost see the adrenaline pumping through his pores. You could hear, in his thunderous voice, an amalgam of amazement and pure joy. Rambling, bumbling Biden was mostly gone. In his stead was an exuberant, articulate champion.

That's Frank Bruni in the paper NYT tomorrow.  (You can find advance NYT wire stories here.)

And that's the trouble too with so much advocacy, as opposed to analysis, in our journolism today. Just a few days ago, the sun could not set on Pete Butteigig, according to columnist Bruni, who was one of the first nationally to introduce Pete as the rising gay political star out of South Bend, Ind.

Easy come, easy go...

Did Biden really change?
Did voters's appetites for him?
Or... by taking away more and more of their personal choices, do Dem establishment leaders think their voters will simply obey, fall in line, and select the "choice" that party elders have determined is the best candidate for the country? (That sounds very... Russian really.)

Are American voters really concerned with keeping Nancy Pelosi in power, at this point?
Will they be persuaded that white men indeed are the best national leaders for America, even as they are aging and their performances dwindling?
To keep the Court, will enough workers put their own economic interests secondary to party leaders?

If the field had not been artificially narrowed in recent days to give Biden a desperate final boost, would men like Bruni really risk their own progressive reputations to support the establishment that has -- and will continue to -- systematically discriminate against individuals in favor of bloated corporations and bureaucratic organizations/non-profits?

Frank Bruni -- can we be honest? -- is comfortable with the country's economic status quo.
Therefore, he overvalues "neat" and clean...
But is he in the minority, or are we?

Biden calls for healing. Sanders vows to fight.  Whose Democratic Party is it, anyway? We’ll need the rest of March — and probably even longer — to find out. But we know, thanks to the clearing and clarifying function of the states that weighed in on Tuesday, that the party has arrived at a fork in the road much neater than many of us were expecting.  It could be neater still...

“We want a nominee who will beat Donald Trump but also keep Nancy Pelosi as the speaker of the House and win back the United States Senate,” Biden said. “We’ve got to beat Donald Trump, and we will, but we can’t become like him.” ...

Many anxious Democratic voters have been itching to unite behind a candidate so that everyone can then turn their attention and focus their energies on getting rid of Trump, and they needed just a few prompts to do that. They got those prompts over the past 96 hours. If they hadn’t been rushing toward Biden before, they had never been running away. He was always there, so safe and so dear, a harbor at the ready, a perfectly acceptable landing. ...

On Super Tuesday, Biden was the superhero. He could yet step on his own cape: He’s Biden, after all. But until then, he’s soaring.

Full disclosure:  Columnist Bruni has written in the past year about his encroaching blindness that struck him suddenly, and his personal struggles to reconcile his physical limitations with his career. I am not sure if that has limited his abilities to canvass the nation, especially through reading rather than travel, but I suspect his persuasiveness to present Joe Biden today as a credible candidate for the presidency will have the same result as his dogged writings trying to convince voters that former "Mayor Pete" the all-American looking youth candidate out of South Bend, Ind. was a strong candidate for the job too.