(New York Post) It was like something out of a Tom Wolfe novel, or worthy of Marie Antionette’s “let them eat cake!” contempt for the common folk that precipitated the French Revolution.
In Minute One of the presidential debate Thursday night, the Democratic party and the entire class of mainstream media sycophants and pundits were exposed as conspirators in a “Big Lie” – the gaslighting of the American public that President Biden was not only mentally fit but better and wiser than ever for a second term when they knew that was false.
The burning question is what drove this self-delusion and the betrayal of the public.
Was it lobotomized groupthink?
Craven careerism and self-dealing that made them believe they could hold on to power and run the country like some sort of collective-ventriloquist?
A form of narcissism by family Biden who long craved this kind of power and would fight anything — including reality — that threatened to take it away?
In March of 2023, I wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal arguing that Biden had no business running for a second term because, among other reasons, of his mental capacity.
The plainly evident canary in the coal mine was September 2021, when Biden didn’t seem to have any clue that his senior military advisors opposed his total withdrawal from Afghanistan (they supported a smaller contingent to stabilize the civilian government and prevent the return of Al Qaeda there).
I was lambasted from many quarters for this unspeakable act of independent thinking and observance of plain truths.
Meanwhile the party and its mainstream media enablers kept snowing us that Biden’s incoherent verbal meanderings, his stumbles on bikes and Air Force One stairways, his jaw-dropping mistakes about foreign leaders (including dead ones), his wildly fantastical claims that Congress passed student loan relief, or Putin’s war in “Iraq” were all right wing conspiracies.
The gaslighting ran far and deep.
White House staff claimed the president’s compromised gait, blank stares and perplexing wanderings were “deep fakes” and enlisted none other than The New York Times to validate these plainly wrong claims.
Like Soviet commissars, the liberal cable network hosts, Biden administration officials and liberal pundits kept telling us Biden was better than ever.
Was Trump’s alleged “election interference” in the Manhattan trial really more serious than this misleading of the public on the president’s fitness for a second term?
