The fickle winds of politics blew a gale

The still-life watercolor of a now-late political season suddenly has changed.

You don’t have to recall the lyrics of the 1966 Simon and Garfunkel song about the dangling conversation – from which the introductory line to this column is adapted – to know that, in a mere week’s time, the American conversation has changed.

The national dinnertime conversation has moved from whether Joe Biden will stic…