OUR COVER this week contemplates the cowardice and complacency of America’s Democratic Party.  Democrats rage about how re-electing Donald Trump would doom their country’s democracy. And yet, in deciding who to put up against him in November’s election, their party looks as if it will meekly submit to the candidacy of an 81-year-old with the worst approval rating of any modern president at this stage in his term. How did it come to this?

Leader: The man supposed to stop Donald Trump is an unpopular 81-year-old
Briefing: Joe Biden’s chances do not look good. The Democrats have no plan B