Just now had a chat with my 93yr old dad about Biden's speech. My dad and I are both Nevertrump and he has his lifetime GOP credentials in good order as do I. He loved the speech and thinks the WH should not be walking back the comments. I think that's my dad being annoyed at the young staffers trying to protect the elderly Biden who they see through their optic as whatever it is that the young misjudge the elderly as being.
I told him that i thought it was what Nixon and Kissinger called the "Cowardice of the Eastern Establishment"