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National Review's Kyle Smith elaborates.

If, as appears likely, voters have given Biden a narrow win, they have done two things: acknowledge President Trump’s personality and stylistic flaws while resoundingly rejecting the idea that it was time to implement the opposite of Trumpian policies. Unless the Democrats can grab both Senate seats in Georgia in runoffs scheduled for January 5, Biden would be a bandleader without musicians, an architect without builders. The country will have chosen to remove President Trump while asking that America otherwise continue on its present course, steady as she goes: no rethink of the energy industry, of health care, of capitalism, no vast new scheme to combat inequality, no federal bailout of the fiscally profligate blue states. The Democrats will have been given the presidency and warned not to do anything much with it.

This shouldn’t surprise us. The American polis does change over time, demographically and otherwise, but it doesn’t change much. Since the disastrous self-destruction of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency half a century ago, only once — or, arguably, twice — has the country voted to take a vigorous left turn. Both the Obama and Clinton administrations were born out of perceived economic crises, but in each case, as the economy recovered on its own, Americans immediately rejected the president’s opportunistic policies and brought in a Republican Congress to halt his agenda. Clinton was reduced to declaring “the era of big government is over” as Newt Gingrich seized the upper hand. Obama spent the last three-quarters of his presidency grousing about Republican obstructionism and using his vaunted pen and phone. These turned out to be more like an Etch-a-Sketch. Trump shook up the Obama presidency and largely erased it.

If he wins, Biden would be the first incoming president in 32 years to not have the Senate backing him (unless the Democratic Party should pull off that astounding feat in Georgia, in which case it would enjoy only the barest possible majority of 51–50, including the vice president). It appears that the Democrats will cling to power by a thread in the House of Representatives, whose moderate members are keenly aware that the party winning the presidency almost invariably suffers huge losses in the next midterm and who have been angrily denouncing the party’s radical wing for dragging them down.

A victorious Biden would be placed in the humiliating position of a largely ceremonial president. Which works out fine for him. He has never had the courage to fight for much of anything. He always wanted merely to be popular, not to push for anything in particular. The most notorious blowhard of the last half century in Washington would in fact be called upon to do what he does best — talk, talk, and talk some more. We could all look forward to a presidency as mighty as Delaware.

Victory Girl Nina Bookout still fears an uprising by the third world kiddie corps.  "No Kyle, it isn’t anywhere near dead. It has moved to just below the surface, and is still bubbling and brewing its toxicity, just waiting for that right time and place for it’s fearless leader AOC to shove Biden into socialism for all she’s worth."  Which might not be that much, as she might lack a few of the keys to success.  Should he be certified as winner in sufficiently many states, the coot is going to have a good time.