The New York Post’s Miranda Devine has written an excellent column (no surprise at all there) regarding the fact that Joe Biden’s cognitive deficiency/bordering on non-existence is nothing new, it has been obvious for years. (A little immodesty here: I have been writing about it for years as well).
So how did he manage to hold the presidency for all this time…and even be the 2024 presidential candidate had it not been for one of his “bad days” when he debated Donald Trump?
Here is a segment of Ms. Devine’s commentary that will help to explain:
He has been a president in name only (PINO) since the day he was inaugurated.
The Constitution has an in-built mechanism to deal with such a threat, the 25th Amendment.
But the problem is that it needs people of good character to activate it. The mendacious minders around Biden, including his ambitious wife, were having too much fun abusing the powers of his presidency.
They justified their malfeasance by giving the president free rein on his “good days.” Considering Biden in his prime was an incompetent blowhard, dire consequences for America and the world were inevitable.
Yes, the media and the Democrats were complicit in hiding Biden’s obvious cognitive decline. But we mustn’t allow this latest approved narrative to be the mechanism that lets him off the hook.
He was in no shape to run for president in 2020 but vanity, delusional self-belief, and an avaricious family propelled him to center stage, and a corrupt party rigged a basement campaign to make him president.
He was clearly addled on the campaign trail in January 2020 in Iowa and New Hampshire, perpetually late and having to read his stump speeches from a teleprompter.
But he had enough “good days” to know what he was doing when he walked into the Oval Office and issued the orders to unwind Trump-era border protections, abandon Bagram Air Base, defy the Supreme Court, propel inflation, weaken the military, project weakness to our adversaries, pressure the DOJ to protect his wayward son, and use lawfare to come after his political opponents, all while making divisive speeches attacking half the country.
I’m not sure Joe Biden was in as bad shape as Ms. Devine says he was on day one. But, then again, I’m not sure he wasn’t either. As for the latter part of his presidency, there is no doubt about where he was and how it continued to deteriorate…
…nor is there any doubt about how the people around him, with massive complicity by a great many of our media, intentionally hid his condition as best they could and lied about it to our faces.
Miranda Devine, who has chronicled this superbly, is, to me a Pulitzer Prize winner who will never win a Pulitzer Prize. Wrong party, wrong politics. But anyone who cares about reality and about who is actually running the United States of America, owes her a major debt of gratitude.
