“He’s f----ng old and everyone knows it, but no one wants to talk about it for fear of offending him or anyone around him.” Those words from an unnamed Democratic strategist neatly sum up the state of play for our 46th president, as noted in a front-page piece in The Hill entitled “Biden can’t escape questions on his age.” Like a growing number of articles in recent days, it is laced with the frustrations of professional Democrats who are coming to grips with the reality that, while the ominous numbers on gas and food prices, inflation, crime, and illegal border crossings could possibly improve, Biden himself is in an all but hopeless downward spiral.
Indeed, for Joe Biden, things have moved well beyond a question of his individual policy failures to a composite judgment of the man. His approval keeps dropping to new record lows – even with largely fawning coverage from elite media following his rise to power, he has fallen into the 30s in six of the nine most recent polls, below Donald Trump’s lowest point. It seems people have made up their minds, and while much of it has to do with his incompetent performance, the latest poll from Harvard-Harris reveals that a whopping 62% of respondents now believe Biden is too old to be president. Of course, this raises the question of how so many millions of voters in 2020 missed, downplayed, ignored – or chose not to consider – that unmistakable truth about the now-79-year-old Democrat.
Liberty Nation sounded the alarm on the subject of Biden’s age, stamina, and disturbing cognitive decline well before the 2020 election, but voters riven by a pandemic and the associated ruptures in the economy, combined with unending slanderous attacks on Donald Trump, all but ignored the clear warning signs. And now, suddenly, as if he had aged far more than the three years since he started his presidential campaign, Democrats are panicking, and the media who contributed so mightily to Biden landing in the White House are finally seeming to notice that their guy is over the hill – and not coming back.
Joe Biden (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
This does not mean Biden will not seek re-election. He said he decided to run in 2020 strictly to stop Trump and is reported to have said privately that he is the only one who could beat him again. While he could possibly be right, it’s not as if the playing field in 2024 is even remotely similar to the last election. God willing, we won’t be struck by another pandemic, and most importantly, this 46th president now has a record to defend, which voters will compare to that of the 45th. Outside of the hard left, Trump would win that argument every time – peace and prosperity for three years vs exploding inflation, crime, and illegal immigration, on top of international instability, all in just 17 months since Biden took office and set out to reverse everything Trump did. And he has succeeded – at the cost of defining his presidency as an utter failure – and as revealed in his physical and mental state that limits him to a short schedule with no more than one public event per day and weekends at the beach, an irreversible decline. It is only a matter of how far and how fast his fall will continue.
The burning question now is just how much relative significance voters will place on the waning days of the Trump presidency, which Democrats are exploiting to the max with their January 6 show trial. Which prospect frightens them more, another riot by Trump supporters or an increasingly feeble president clearly out of his depth? A president thought too strong and intense – or one proving to be too weak and drowsy?
Joe Biden’s only a couple of years older than when he won,” said former Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper. “It’s not as if this is breaking news that two years after he won he’s two years older than he was.”
But to leftists with their heads long buried in the sand, apparently, it is.
