On April 16, I voted in Georgia’s Democratic presidential primary for Joe Biden. It was the only choice at that time for beating Donald Trump. That’s what my vote meant then.

Now, Biden is no longer my choice. He is going to lose to Donald Trump if he is the only choice we Democrats have.

I can’t change my primary vote. I don’t have a choice, and didn’t have a choice then. But Biden can change his mind.

Moses worried about how the Israelites would behave after he was gone. There was so much still to do. They had not yet entered the Promised Land.

I say “he is going to lose” not as a criticism of Biden but as my fixed bewilderment about the multitude of American adults who tell pollsters they prefer Trump. Maybe they’ll change their minds by November. Maybe the polls are wrong. Biden thinks so.

Polled people gave Trump the edge long before the disastrous debate in Atlanta on June 27. Now it looks even better for Trump. He is so giddy about running against Biden, he isn’t thinking at all about how he would run against someone else. Someone wrote that Trump must be praying that Biden doesn’t step aside and let the Democratic Party be more democratic than anything we can imagine. If Trump prayed.

I pray for Biden to step aside. It’s more than I can imagine. A true revival of America. An excitement of mind, body and spirit, sweeping across the nation like sunlight in springtime. A reawakening to who we are. A recognition that Biden has actually been a damn good President, and things have finally turned around for the good, thanks to his wise and cagey successes. We are recovering from Covid-19 and its rampages. He has helped grow and strengthen NATO, an alliance that has held militarized evil in check since 1949. While we suffer in the heat and storms of this summer, we might see what another Democratic candidate could help us see clearer (since Biden, like Moses, gets tongue-tied. Ex. 6:12) – that our giant systems of agriculture, industry, transportation, and utilities are all steadily replacing carbon with clean, green energy. This is for our grandchildren and their grandchildren in the Promised Land. Thank you, Joe Biden.

But Joe Biden isn’t going anywhere. He says there is still so much (for him!) to do.

This is only the beginning of misery for us ordinary Democrats.

We will not watch TV. It’s too painful. But millions will be watching. The ads for Trump will run clips from the Atlanta debate. They will run clips of Biden wandering away from a line-up of VIPs. TV will show Biden as weak, Trump as strong. Image is everything. As Steve Bannon said in an interview (before going off to federal prison, where like Trotsky he will only become more powerful and mythic), Trump is McLuhanesque. He understands that TV is everything. Written words don’t matter. That’s old media. Language, logic, facts, news, persuasion, laws, the sacred history of the Jews and God’s Providence as handed down in Scripture – none of that matters. Soft, what light from yon window breaks? It is the East and Trump is the sun.

We Democrats voted without some important information about Biden. Millions will be voting for Trump without important information about him, thanks to the insolence of the U.S. Supreme Court, the law’s delay. Americans won’t know whether he is guilty of leading an insurrection against America. That case, aptly named Donald Trump v the United States, has been delayed until after the General Election.