Confused, thin-skinned, full of himself, and ready to burn more straw men than the Wicked Witch of the West? Many of us recognize this version of Joe Biden well indeed, but in fairness to Meghan McCain, many of us didn’t have Biden helping us through the grief of losing a father. Meghan’s experience has been far more personal, and thus her disillusionment more profound.

Yesterday’s bizarre victory lap at the White House was apparently the last straw for the former co-host of The View:

13 American soldiers are dead – most of them between the ages of 20-23 because they were put in harms way chaotically in the line of fire of a suicide bomber. Disappointed and disgusted President Biden says "this couldn't have been done in a more orderly manner".

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 31, 2021

This is extremely difficult for me to say:

I once thought I truly knew Joe Biden and he helped me through pain and grief, for which I am grateful.

This man on tv giving this speech, I do not recognize this man. God help our country. God help the Americans we have abandoned.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 31, 2021

There will be plenty of people ripping Meghan for her reversal from the 2020 election, but come on. The argument for Donald Trump in both elections was the binary choice, which is what the McCain family had, too. Many of us chose Trump (myself included) largely on the basis of the alternatives, perhaps especially with serial plagiarist and overall fraud Joe Biden. The McCains also had a binary choice — between a longtime friend of the family and a candidate who for some reason felt compelled to defecate all over the late John McCain long after he had passed away for no good reason other than to puff his own ego.

One has to wonder now whether the scales have fallen from the eyes of all of the McCains. Biden nominated Meghan’s mother Cindy to be an ambassador to the UN’s Agencies for Food and Agriculture. This disgrace in Afghanistan should have a number of honorable people seeking an exit from Biden’s administration. Will Mrs. McCain continue to seek confirmation? Will Biden pull the nomination after Meghan’s public criticism? Stay tuned.

Meghan’s not the only Biden ally suddenly looking for distance in the wake of the disgrace in Afghanistan and Biden’s weird claim of victory in it. CNN reported late yesterday that “vulnerable Democrats” have begun rapidly backing away from the man whose performance will likely be the midterm yardstick. But CNN’s definition of “vulnerable” is, well …

House and Senate Democrats are watching President Joe Biden’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan with unease, distancing themselves with some Americans left behind in the war-torn country and as Republicans plot to make the issue a major focus heading into the 2022 midterms.

In the wake of Biden’s assurances that no American would be stranded before troops left, and his miscalculation over the power of the Taliban to quickly take over the Afghan government, an array of Democrats are faulting his administration’s handling of the situation and are saying they need answers about the deadly end to the US’ longest war. …

Democrats in swing House districts and difficult Senate races are chiding Biden, with the likes of vulnerable Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire whacking “artificial timelines” set by the President to pull out of Afghanistan. There have been few congressional Democrats defending Biden and the Afghanistan withdrawal in recent days, as the President made a national address on Tuesday defending his decision and insisting it was time to end a war no longer in the national interest.

When asked if she believed the administration has handled the withdrawal well, Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said Tuesday, “I want answers to the questions,” adding that Congress must conduct oversight and the US must help Americans evacuate while assisting with the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule.

Hassan’s certainly vulnerable in razor-split New Hampshire. If Debbie Dingell is vulnerable in 2022, then Democrats are about to experience an electoral bloodbath. Her Michigan district (MI-12) has a Cook rating of D+13. Joe Biden carried it by 30 points last year, and Hillary Clinton carried it by 26 points four years earlier. There has been a Dingell in Congress from this area in an unbroken string of elections that goes back to 1932. Dingell is one of the few Democrats who should be able to help circle the wagons, and yet … she’s pointedly not doing so.

Biden’s in the middle of a political abandonment that we may not have seen in 47 years. It won’t end in resignation, because Biden lacks the self-awareness necessary for such an introspective act. But it will end in an utterly failed presidency and an utterly disgraced president nonetheless.