WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Democrats put their fate in Obama’s hands — and the Islamic State’s. “Are Democrats going to circle the wagons once again for the White House, just as they did on the deeply flawed Iran deal? If so, they are gambling with the lives of Americans and with their own political future. Essentially, they are betting that the Islamic State won’t follow up on Paris, even though the president projects passivity and weakness — even defiance to suggestions that his approach has not made us safer. While the president may be so cut off from reality that he does not appreciate the enormity of his national security failure or the impression of weakness and unseriousness he is projecting, Democratic elected officials and candidates have no excuse.”

Well, when you’re reading in The New Yorker — The New Yorker! — that none of the Democrats has a strategy for ISIS, things look bad.