Almost to the Top

Glenn Thrush has a must-read profile of Vice President Joe Biden.

“Joe Biden in winter is still basically a happy warrior, but the past couple years have been a struggle for both relevance and leverage–a fight largely hidden from public view, between the presidential dreams he can’t quite relinquish and the shrinking parameters of a job he described to me as derivative, borrowed and ‘totally reflective of the president’s power.'”

“Almost all White House partnerships deteriorate in the end, undone by diverging politics, festering policy disputes–or simply human fatigue amid the strains of trying to turn what is inevitably a shotgun marriage into a love match… How does this one end?”