"Selflessness" is when you're a "public service" and you fuck over the entire country and your party by refusing to bow out when you can barely stand.
Selflessness in the sense that he no longer has an coherent ego or interior sense of 'I' which could desire to stay in the race
He has made the rarest of choices in the desiccated, demoralized politics of our time: he has sacrificed his own ambition for the sake of the country.
He’s doing it for the sake of his party. The country ain’t got shit to do with it.
If he had announced that he was not seeking reelection 2 years ago, and spent that time setting the ground for his successor, that would be selfless.
This is not a selfless act. This is a concerned adult child hiding their elderly parents car keys because they're not fit to drive.
