Losing Syria, the only other nation-state in the axis other than Iran, may be the coup de grace.

After laying claim to the deeply dubious decision of that pardon, the optics of which may haunt Democrats for years, Clyburn delivered his coup de grâce: That the man whose brazen lawlessness Biden was elected to stop—and who was charged with 88 criminal counts and convicted on 34 felonies before the Supreme Court sent those charges up in smoke—should also now be pardoned.

And then Walz delivered the coup de grace by bringing up the absence of Mike Pence:

A skilled tracker can force faster running prey into a relentless cycle of sprinting, overheating, exhaustion, and eventual collapse—then finish off the animal with a coup de grâce delivered by spear or club.

The Toranaga of decades past wasn’t fit to deliver the coup de grâce to the rebel lord, and the Toranaga of today refuses to do the same to his country.