Over at the Lincoln Project, we’re done with the “Biden is too old” Republican talking point. The hardest part of making this ad was cutting it down from ten minutes to just one.
There’s a reason Chris LaCivita, Suzie Wiles, Kellyanne Conway, and Jason Miller are nervous that Trump’s verbal dysentery during his late-night Truthing rants and rally shows is getting dangerous.
Part I of many, many more.
Everyone ages differently. You can be 95 years-old and still be spry and mentally sharp. Or 80 and tragically lost in dementia. Comparing Trump and Biden today, or to make things fairer the 2015 Trump, we can see one far more lucid and without a quixotic fixation towards "windmills."
But even in the best of cases, the decline can be rapid and sudden. Yet I don't worry so much about Biden today, more years down the road. The United States is at a precarious situation and it'll continue to be so at the point of the next election. Trump, or no Trump. Biden with a successful second term, or not. Especially as Americans have a track record of sweeping their presidents' mental issues under a rug. In which case, all we can hope is for the White House to get better at keeping secrets. It'll be far worse if he actually dies in office.
Biden's haughty echoing of Trump's 'I alone can fix it!' and not trusting the Democratic bench behind him potentially carries a very steep price for his successor. He is the only choice if you care about democracy, however. Even should he be at his deathbed flinging feces come the election because his administration won't be filled with authoritarians running the day-to-day operations of the government.
My favorite quote, by an unknown author, is “Age is a privilege denied to many”. Oldsters don’t usually just suddenly keel over stone-cold dead. In fact, most Americans will enjoy(?) a long lingering death due to modern medicine. Mazel tov.
President Biden is the perfect age — the age of wisdom, perseverance, courage, empathy, and compassion. He’s seen the horror of young family members gone too soon. If you haven’t, please be grateful.
My family is not the typical mortality chart experience. One dozen family members died young. Grandpa was only 59. Children died — five first cousins, 2-17. Young beautiful women died. The median age was 23 years old. I call my life hillbilly Hamlet because dad’s suicide, at 43, was a direct result of Gertrude’s betrayal.
Live long and prosper. I’m gonna have the best birthday ever next year. When I’m 64…🎶