Eric Berg: I'm not sure the converse is true though. There could be something there that people close to him are in denial about.

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.

That’s where I am. There’s really no halfway point.

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.

Right. Jill‘s, “Joe, it’s time” conversation only happens if there’s something there.

I'm not sure the converse is true though. There could be something there that people close to him are in denial about.

As someone who has been caregiver to cognitively impaired folks. No. One knows.

(sorry, to clarify you mean that people can tell, or that people can't tell? genuinely asking, confused by punctuation lol)

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