President Joe Biden is in denial. He can’t face reality. Regarding a possible decision to end his campaign:  “Well, it depends if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that — I might do that,” he stated to George Stephanopoulos of ABC last Friday. And in a phone interview on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ program, he said, “The bottom line is, I’m not going anywhere.”

It’s not up to him. His departure is a matter of time. However, his reaction is expected. It is incredibly difficult for him to make the decision to leave. He has dedicated his life to politics. He has faced storms and tragedies, tasted successes and triumphs. A child of humble origins with a speech impediment, who did not study at a prestigious university like many of his predecessors, he became a senator, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, vice president, and President of the United States. So how can he abandon the final battle of his political life? And what advice is he getting from his family, friends, and close associates? How objective are they? Won’t they also be affected by his decision? But, as I said before, the decision has already been made. What remains is for some time to pass for him to accept it.

He needs to go through some necessary psychological phases, to prove that he fought to the end, ultimately to accept that there is no hope, but that he will wake up one day and the great nightmare will be over. He suffers in vain. He cannot win this battle. It is beyond his power. There are millions of witnesses who saw with their own eyes his inability to cope with presidential duties and continue to see it. It is perhaps unfair that everything he has offered in his life will be judged by the decision he will be forced to make in the next few weeks. Will he put himself above the country’s interest? Will he risk being remembered in history as the man who threw the country into Trump’s jaws? He doesn’t deserve such an end.