Last Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS might as well have been broadcast a year ago — a time when the press was still dedicated to debunking the notion that President Joe Biden was anything other than fit, cogent, and capable.
Why is it that no one brings up Donald Trump’s age as a demerit against his candidacy, Politico’s Kyle Cheney asked rhetorically. When pressed to answer his own question, he blamed the “years of concerted effort” by Republicans to inject into the public consciousness a narrative “weaponizing Biden’s age against him.” Though Cheney did allow that Trump has “a different demeanor” about him, the Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich went a step further in his condemnation of the GOP. “It’s not just making an issue of Biden’s age, it’s lying,” he added. “It’s saying he’s senile, saying he’s demented, saying he’s out of it.” “Right,” the magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, concurred. “Mentally, he’s quite acute.”
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