President Biden’s cognitive incompetence renders him unfit for office. But so too does his performance over the last three-plus years that left America with a broken border, spiraling crime, high inflation, and a world on fire.
Since Joe Biden came out at the presidential debate as mentally incapacitated, the country’s focus has been on his continued service as commander-in-chief and whether Democrats should replace him as their candidate for November’s election. In fighting off calls that he be replaced, Biden and his apologists have taken two tacks. First, they are pretending his debate performance did not reveal his underlying cognitive decline, framing it as merely a “bad night,” caused by jet lag, over-preparedness, bad make-up, a cold, or a combination of all. Simultaneously, Biden and those defending the president posit that for all his shortcomings, Biden is still the better option because he tells the truth, Trump is a danger to our democracy, and Biden has a team helping run America.
The only aspect of either tack that tracks reality is that an unknown inner circle is making policy decisions for the Biden administration. But rather than assure Americans that Joe Biden should remain in office, the fact that other stealth leaders are assisting in the direction of the executive branch should damn not just Joe Biden but Democrats at large because the Biden administration has been disastrous for the country.
Never have the consequences of an administration change given Americans such a stark contrast in the effects of competing
