President Biden has been on vacation … this time: the Virgin Islands.  One doesn’t know whether to celebrate that he’s not in Washington, D.C. or to lament that this has been the template for years—with record vacation time, a record lack of cabinet meetings and meetings with senior staff … not at the White House much at all … and when he was there, he wasn’t particularly present. So, who has been?—and who is running things?

Speculations have run from Dr. Jill Biden to others. But now we read in a major story in the Wall Street Journal, it was two aids none of us have heard of who, among other things, “would often repeat basic instructions to him.” 

Let me state it bluntly: That is not how our democratic republic is supposed to work. Government by anonymous and unknown aids in a Chernenko-like cover up operation? That’s the Soviet Union of yore.

It’s sad, but a relief to know, that this period of America governed by a headless horseman is coming to an end.