what’s really going to be wild is if we ditch a sitting president for the second time in history based on a fullbore media and social media freakout and then everyone goes back to claiming media narratives don’t matter in politics
Here's what I think: I think that if he's still perfectly sharp and everyone around him knows it, he'll be fine.
If there's an actual cognitive decline issue, which I do not for a moment pretend to know if there actually is, he's doneso.
I'm not so sanguine that "true, objective reality" will win out. The AG Failson has his frame and he's been busy shoving every little scrap of evidence at hand into it.
The big "Biden Lapses" article has text that mostly contradicts its headline. Doesn't matter to the freakout.
It's not abt true objective reality, it's just that I think he will be able to successfully resist pressure to step down if everyone around him knows this us bullshit, but not if they know it's not.
I keep thinking about how millions of Californians were represented by Dianne Feinstein even as her memory deteriorated. It only ended when she died. Awful.
It should, but as someone who was watching Feinstein in business meetings during that, the comparison with Biden right now isn’t even close. Feinstein needed people to turn the page of her binder for her.
The trouble is he's obviously deteriorated significantly in the last few years, and there's no way to know how bad it will be even a year from now. He shouldn't have been running in this election at all.
Gonna second it not being obvious. Can’t say I’ve noticed a change.
And honestly I don’t care about whether he declines post-election, everything takes a backseat to beating Trump.
