Joe Biden’s Accelerating Mental Decay

One thing that has been on my mind for weeks now — brooding in the background as a potentially splenetic 4,000-word long-form blurt of acute psychological and civic discomfort — is the decay of President Joe Biden happening before our very eyes during the calendar year 2023. I went back to when I first joined National Review full-time to read what I was saying about it (as recently as February of this year) and to see how my references to it progressed to the present day, and two things were immediately clear: (1) I really had a lot to learn about writing back then, and (2) my concern — beyond partisan politics, just as observation — has been escalating from that time all along, not merely upward in a straight line, but accelerating exponentially. Not because I like Joe Biden, mind you, but because I like America. And when America’s president is currently already bobbing mentally like an untethered buoy out to sea, the idea of a major party renominating him is just an act of civic insanity.

Are the Democrats really going to do this? Are they going to ask Americans to vote for this? It seems they are. Americans have every right to say no.

JB

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Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.

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One thing that has been on my mind for weeks now — brooding in the background as a potentially splenetic 4,000-word long-form blurt of acute psychological and civic discomfort — is the decay of President Joe Biden happening before our very eyes during the calendar year 2023. I went back to when I first joined National Review full-time to read what I was saying about it (as recently as February of this year) and to see how my references to it progressed to the present day, and two things were immediately clear: (1) I really had a lot to learn about writing back then, and (2) my concern — beyond partisan politics, just as observation — has been escalating from that time all along, not merely upward in a straight line, but accelerating exponentially. Not because I like Joe Biden, mind you, but because I like America. And when America’s president is currently already bobbing mentally like an untethered buoy out to sea, the idea of a major party renominating him is just an act of civic insanity.

Are the Democrats really going to do this? Are they going to ask Americans to vote for this? It seems they are. Americans have every right to say no.

JB

About the Author

Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.