ALL HAIL THE MESSIAH, JOE BIDEN, JOE BIDEN.

That's the kind of boilerplate one expects when the runners-up in the primary endorse the party's putative nominee.

When citizens write such things, doesn't that put the whole universal-suffrage idea in doubt?

What is clear is that leading this country through the coronavirus pandemic is not something the current occupant of the White House is capable of, and we cannot count on him for what this country will need going forward. After the devastating toll this virus will inflict, we will need a president who can help this nation heal and come back from this crisis. Only Joe has the decency, humanity and history to do that for us now.

Or, at a minimum, that there is herd immunity among the electorate to such naïve participation in the Cult of the Presidency.