Look past the tributes, Joe Biden has been shuffled aside now in every sense of the word

After an interminable delay, President Joe Biden finally took the stage Monday on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, declaring that "democracy has prevailed." 

Ironically, he handed his party’s nomination to Kamala Harris, a candidate who had earned precisely zero votes – and whose previous bid for the White House imploded well before the first votes were cast.

Four years after setting records by winning more votes than any other U.S. presidential candidate and...