While her husband was holed up in Camp David as Democratic Party kingmakers worked overtime to resuscitate his imploding reelection bid, first lady Jill Biden reminded the world that she is indeed the power behind the throne and, more importantly, why she will push the president, come hell or high water, to Election Day.
In her third Vogue magazine cover since Joe Biden‘s inauguration, beating the First Lady record previously set by Michelle Obama, a monochromatic Dr. McB stares off contentedly into the distance, like an airbrushed Lenin or designer-dud-clad Mao. Days after former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton made clear that Democrats are stuck with the incumbent even after a debate performance that can be mostly kindly described as a borderline medical emergency, the first lady in white is embossed with her own sordid reminder: “WE WILL DECIDE OUR FUTURE.”
Petrified by the presumption that a real journalist would uncover the actual story of the consummate socialite pulling off a real-life Weekend at Bernie’s but with the presidency, the hagiographers at Vogue stick to the shallow depths of hackneyed sartorial studies — “She looks like she’s ready to party, and in a way, she is—these are her people” — and peddling the party line that “democracy is on the line.”
The problem for the Bidens is that voters agree, and increasingly and for good reason, voters across the aisle view the party in power as the greater threat to our democratic process. In a national CBS News poll after the debate, voters agreed that both Biden and former President Donald Trump were equally dangerous to democracy, despite Biden’s previous lead on the issue. Even before the debate, swing state voters gave Trump an 11-point advantage on the question of protecting democracy.
Alas, that is a consequence of the Democratic Party quite literally canceling state primaries until Biden, with 99% of delegates secured, revealed he could not spar against Trump without falling on his face, let alone against Russian President Vladimir Putin or Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Jane O’Meara Sanders, the wife of the socialist senator-turned-Biden loyalist Bernie Sanders (I-VT), likened Dr. Jill to former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In reality, Biden is likely more of an Edith Wilson type. Careful not to let facts get in the way of the narrative, Vogue omits the first lady’s reported full-time job of cordoning off the president from staff before sunrise and after sundown. (Medical professionals have a word for octogenarians incapable of retaining their faculties after the sun is down.)
Instead, the plain old professor Jill of Vogue is a mere mannequin, a still rather pretty older lady who excels at the abstract — “advocating” and campaigning, holding the hands of strangers, telling them “please” and “thank you.” But a picture is worth 1,000 words, and the magazine’s cover star, complete in a $2,820 Ralph Lauren dress, can’t lie: Joe Biden will remain president because that is what Jill Biden has decided.
