If you were to open the opinion section of a major American newspaper this past week, you could be forgiven for thinking that age, and some understandable-but-lamentable stubbornness, are the sole reasons for Biden’s historic unpopularity among his base. You certainly would not know that Joe has spent the bulk of the last year sponsoring a genocide, nor that his decision to do so has made the prospect of voting for him, let alone actively campaigning for his reelection, a nauseating prospect for many Democratic voters.

The loudest calls for Biden’s removal are not coming from a small cabal of embittered, middle-aged, Beltway pundits—the “powerful, high-status white men” of which Solnit speaks. They’re coming, and have for months been coming, from a diverse caucus of Americans who have watched in horror as the man they were told (over and over and over again) stands for “decency” used their tax dollars to turn the Gaza Strip into a killing field. A man who flew to Israel to physically embrace one of the most remorseless butchers of the modern age. A man whose zealotry and vanity is driving the country back into the arms of a fascist grotesque.

Joe Biden will be ousted, either by his own party in coming days or by the voters in November. He will be abandoned by people who finally gave him what he’d wanted so desperately for almost half a century.