Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“Those who colluded in the cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline are eager to put it behind them. The election is over, so why dwell on the past? Why not focus on more immediate problems, such as President Donald Trump’s continuing offenses against the civic order? You can’t blame them for hoping, I suppose. But we can’t simply ignore such a shocking institutional failure. Nor can we put off the reckoning in sympathetic deference to Sunday’s announcement that the former president has aggressive metastatic prostate cancer. … the most important office in the world demands that its occupant always be ready to handle a crisis, every minute, for a full four years. The fate of humanity might depend on it. Biden’s staff knew he wasn’t up to those demands, because they didn’t even trust him to handle a small fundraiser without a teleprompter.” (05/20/25)