It brings me no pleasure to inform you that we have reached the “dumping” phase of Joe Biden’s presidency. This is an academic term, actually. A Rutgers historian named George Sirgiovanni—great Jersey name, by the way—wrote a scholarly article titled “Dumping The Vice President” back in 1994, when some columnists and fretful Democrats were calling on Bill Clinton to dump his veep, Al Gore, and replace him on the ticket with someone more exciting, in hopes of saving Clinton’s then-ugly re-election chances. Sirgiovanni cracked open some books and found that among the country’s historical roster of vice presidents, only eight had suffered the humiliation of being kicked off the party’s ticket heading into re-election. I guarantee that you can’t name half of them.