The Biden administration has one last bit of prestidigitation it can pull to salvage something from the midterm elections for the balance of its term. It is obvious that, despite the biases of most of the polls attached to pro-Democratic newspapers and left-leaning universities, the Biden administration is regarded by the majority of Americans as a failure and that the governing Democratic Party has misused its mandate and in four weeks is going to be rejected, probably decisively, at the polls. 

The Democrats have played the only card they’ve had for the last six years: the confected and magnified hatred of the former president, Donald Trump, capped by the Keystone Kops invasion of Mar-a-Lago. The ensuing controversy reminded the country of Trump chaos, (even when it is caused by spurious attacks on Mr. Trump that he has to rebut), and President Biden’s disapproval gap narrowed by half to ten percent. Yet Mr. Trump managed to shunt it off to a special master, and the nonsense has died down.