The Republicans Are a Party in Search of a Future
It has been more than three decades since Joe Biden passed out in a New York hotel and remained unconscious for several hours. He endured two brain surgeries to repair the silent ravages of twin aneurysms, or ballooning of arteries, one of which had ruptured. After six months of recovery, Mr.
Biden returned to the only life he knows. He won’t let his health remove him from public life again. Mr.
Biden’s personal decline has exploded into an irremediable public embarrassment. Nine months before the election, an ABC News/Ipsos poll reports that 86% of Americans, including 73% of Democrats and 91% of independents, believe Mr. Biden is too old to hold his office.
Time doesn’t improve old age. As the world slips beyond his understanding, we hear of Mr. Biden’s blowups.
Anger and aggression characterize his responses, publicly and inside the White House. The rate of Mr. Biden’s decline can only accelerate and so can its cost.
Voters can tolerate a president dismissed by a special prosecutor as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," but a commander in chief with his finger on the nuclear trigger who can’t control his belligerence would no doubt terrify them. Despite Mr. Biden’s shameful retreat from Afghanistan, Vladimir Putin’s brazen invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’s strike on our closest Middle East ally, an invasion of illegal immigrants across the southern border, and the normalization of crime near our homes, America should buckle up: The lowest point of the Biden administration is yet to come.
Weakness always invites the wolves. Economic, diplomatic and military competitors will organize to take advantage of this administration’s frailty. The pressure for political change at home will become more
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