I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now.

With the now being the end of the road for Biden's 2024 presidential campaign, if you've

been listening to this show for a while, you probably know that I myself am usually

pretty skeptical of the word historic when

used to describe current events these days. I mean, everything that happens is technically historic.

So just like every town off an American interstate exit, the word gets used way too much, just a

rhetorically true yet utterly dishonest way of getting people to stop, look, and maybe spend a few

dollars. Sorry, I'm a bit cynical about it.

But as it turns out, I do actually believe that there are moments where you can see something

significant happening. I think something that we'll at least look back on and notice, I guess.

But it always matters what we do with it. Now, to be fair, what happens next is anybody's guess.

But as I've been following Biden's decision, and this is kind of a weird thing because I don't follow the news cycle. Bob does

more of that. I pay attention to it. I care about politics. I pay attention to a lot of local stuff.

But I've actually been following these calls for Biden to resign. And it's gotten to me more than just about anything has in modern politics, I think, in terms of being really worried.

And the reason I'm worried, first of all, as I think John Stewart probably did the best job explaining, the Democratic Party was just asking everyone to not see what they saw.

It was kind of scary. So there's

that. There's the fact that we are going into an election with two people who can't make coherent

sentences or make rational arguments. And we were in a situation where it was going to be one of them.

And if this makes you upset as a person who likes one of these candidates, I apologize,

but I will say something.

As someone who has made sure their Facebook feed shows people from a variety of political

perspectives, America might have been more united the night of that debate than I've seen

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