Who didn’t? I was on Australian television during the 2020 election campaign, and casually mentioned that Joe Biden was senile. Rita Panahi was startled and said, “Wait, what? Joe Biden is senile?” I explained that this was why he was running a basement campaign rather than putting on campaign events like Donald Trump did. It seemed obvious at the time.
Biden’s debility became increasingly clear over the four years of his term. The videos of Biden being unable to speak without a teleprompter, being unable to read a teleprompter, falling down, wandering about, speaking inappropriately in various ways, were legion. You would have had to avert your eyes to avoid seeing them.
I can’t explain why the Democratic Party planned to move forward with Biden as its candidate in 2024. Evidently they thought he was their best option, which tells you something about that party. In any event, the Democrats’ strategy failed, and Biden’s dementia became so plain that they had no choice but to dump him.
Now the Democrats are engaged in a blame game, as multiple books have been written about how the press fooled the party, or Biden aides fooled the press, or the press fooled itself. Most ridiculous, perhaps, is Jake Tapper’s Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Cover-up? Cover-up by whom? By Jake Tapper:
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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 13, 2025
The White House didn’t fool me or anyone else who was paying attention, so I am pretty sure they didn’t fool Tapper or his colleagues in the press, nearly all of whom are in the tank for the Democratic Party. If they now collectively look stupid, it could be worse. Their effort to foist a senile hack on the American people could have succeeded.
