July 1974 or July 2024? The answer, of course, is both.
You may say — but Richard Nixon was the calculated architect of his own doom. Joe Biden, by contrast, can’t help himself. He’s a befuddled old guy, now on his third bout of Covid, who typically starts work around 10 a.m., takes a nap each afternoon before his early-bird dinner and at least up until last Sunday appeared to genuinely believe he was the one person on the planet who can do whatever it is he does in his job.
Maybe. But, by the same logic, at least Nixon’s wonderfully twisted mind was still working flat out until the end. ...
It would appear that the bar may be set lower for Biden, whose gaffe-ridden but at least halfway lucid press conference following the recent NATO summit — in which he referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump” — was hailed by some in the media as a display of Ciceronian eloquence. But even that failed to completely silence Biden’s critics from within his own ranks, particularly after the real Trump’s survival of a would-be assassin’s bullet. The floodgates of Democratic dissent were well and truly open[.]
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