Throw Biden Under the Bus⁠↗

on a fundamental level, Biden defined his entire post-2016 political comeback in terms of averting the Trumpian threat to American political institutions. And he failed, catastrophically! It’s not just that Trump won, it’s that he has returned more powerful than before. It’s that we are genuinely much worse off than we would have been if Trump were narrowly reelected in 2020. It’s that Biden alienated an entire cohort of young people, along with many of the leaders of the most important companies in America.

There’s an urgent need for common sense Democrats to buck the establishment and admit what everyone knows: Biden fucked up, badly, in his handling of his age, and the effort to keep this under wraps seems to be related to some of the ideological failings of his presidency.

The message that “Biden was perfect in every way and totally mentally competent” was not something a person could reasonably stick to during a long, unstructured conversation. Trump, in comparison, actually had a very self-critical message, focused on the idea that his big mistake in his first term was failing to do a massive purge of the civil service.