SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE

A victory for Trump spells death for democracy? How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?

Jude Russo

WELL, THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG, I GUESS. PRESIDENT Joe Biden, leader of the free world, an American immortal in the divine company of Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, and Jimmy Carter, is a bit of a drool case. This isn’t news to a lot of people — for example, to the press of the American right, or to various foreign observers with use of their eyes. (The Saudis rendered a somewhat mean-spirited display last April with a television parody of Biden’s doddering.) The man’s catastrophic 27 June debate dragged the matter out of the fever swamps of the partisan press and into the chilly, clinical operating theater of our national discourse. The United States’ mainstream media have been working overtime to make amends for their lapse, reporting…

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