I'm a brain doc (Consultation-Liaison psych).
For *years* Trump's shown uninterrupted, increasingly severe cognitive symptoms: he's incapable of linear thought at baseline.
Whatever disrupted Biden's linear thought in the debate is at worst intermittent.
Bonus: he's not an overt fascist.
I don’t understand why really really smart Atlantic and NYT writers who care about empirical evidence would allow themselves to get wrangled up in this.
Part of being an adult is enduring and not getting caught up in others detractions of you. Think about what you are teaching your children