There were signs President Joe Biden wasn’t calling the shots. After all, he campaigned on being a centrist, a pragmatic alternative to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — just “lunchbox Joe” from Scranton who had worked in the coal mine and driven an 18-wheeler. And yet, from the outset and throughout his term, his administration lurched further left than the Obama administration in nearly every way socially, economically, legally, and internationally. Initially, these moves were attributed to the pandemic or other one-off circumstances, but in time, those became untenable explanations.
It should be clear now to all, even the most rabidly supportive media and Democratic partisans, that Biden has been non compos mentis for essentially the entirety of his term. A Wall Street Journal exposé reveals the extraordinary steps taken to compensate for his decrepitude: isolating him, minimizing and carefully scripting and choreographing his meetings, and limiting his overall exposure to the outside world, exemplified by him reportedly spending 40% of his four-year term on “vacation.”
