I think Biden's choice - while far more understandable but still a personal benefit to himself - will also have consequences for the party's ability to push back on Republican

They're not getting what you're saying, al. What Biden did was literally everything that they've accused Trump of doing and while he was doing it...he threw his own Justice Department under the bus. Not to mention he made fools out of KJP and the entire media (who were carrying his water and praising his commitment to justice and the rule of law for years).

Biden should have made a deal with Trump - I'll pardon the non-violent J6 people if you pardon Hunter - and walked out the door with one of those Presidential Moments that historians look fondly. Something akin to Gerald Ford's simultaneous pardons of Richard Nixon and many anti-war protestors that moved the nation past the Vietnam Era divisiveness.

But nope. He went the other way.