National Review’s Jim Geraghty has come to the conclusion that Joe Biden is just too old to be president. There’s really no need to cite the evidence supporting that conclusion; by now everybody knows that the President of the United States is a befuddled old fool who routinely spouts nonsense and commits alarming gaffes that require fast cleanup by his staff.
Geraghty linked to this bombshell NBC scoop that exposes the dysfunction of the Biden White House in stark detail. It portrays a chief executive who’s out of touch, querulous and angry, brimming with self-pity, quick to pin the blame for this administration’s many pratfalls and disasters on anybody but the man responsible for most of them: Joe Biden himself. Everyone, it seems, is against the President: the media, the Republicans, his own party, the ingrate American people. Nobody appreciates all he has done since January 20, 2021!
No, Mr. President, no. Your problem is that we do appreciate all you’ve done, though not gratefully.
I don’t think it’s going too far to observe that the Biden presidency has collapsed. Its foundations began to crumble in the aftermath of Biden’s disgraceful and humiliating Afghanistan skedaddle, and from that catastrophe there was no turning back. Now of course all presidents have their ups and downs, and to be fair not every problem besetting him and the country is of Joe Biden’s making. But he’s the guy in charge; he sets the tone. No cabal of underlings, no éminence grise, can fill the void when presidential leadership is absent. The presidency is a despotism with all power concentrated in the hands of a single individual whose virtues and vices are reflected throughout the executive branch.
We’re stuck with Joe Biden until January 20, 2025, and I’m afraid that things are going get a lot worse before they get better. No doubt the country will survive; the coming time of troubles is far from the worst ordeal that America has endured. This time, unfortunately, there’s no Lincoln, FDR or Reagan to lead us through the storm. But that’s the way it goes: We have the government we deserve. More than eighty million of us voted for the old fool now living in the White House. May we learn from that grotesque mistake…