Inside his decomposing regime as it entered its final weekend, the mood was grim. Instead of feeling satisfaction at a job well done, regime wonks are clearing out their offices amid overriding feelings of dissatisfaction, loss, and failure. And for that, every patriotic American can be thankful.

NBC News reported Thursday that it’s “like a morgue” inside Old Joe’s White House and that longtime Democrat hatchet man James Carville was ready to shed bitter tears for what might have been: “The Joe Biden story,” the ophidian strategist lamented, “is one of the great tragedies of American politics. I really mean that. He should be having a glorious, well-deserved, highly acclaimed retirement. And he’s not. It’s hard to blame anybody but him.”

Whoever gets the blame ought to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for Biden’s failure to implement his full agenda has given the nation nothing less than a new lease on life. If Old Joe had been as successful in transforming his desires into reality as, say, FDR, America in Jan. 2025 would be well on its way to being a one-party state in which dissent from the elites’ political agenda would be a crime. The bullet that we dodged on Nov. 5 was of that magnitude: the election of Kamala Harris could very well have been the end of America as a free society.