Stay The Curse
By Mitch Berg
The Democrats apparently believe Biden is the lesser of the various available evils:
Expect that the folks who want to be convinced will feel relief, even get a sugar high from Biden’s best moments. Biden supporters will be on an emotional rollercoaster. Until the roller coaster pulls back into the boarding station, it will appear that the campaign is moving fast along the track.
Yes. It really will take a while for Biden’s poll numbers to show that his campaign cannot recover. And even more surprising, expect that many Democrats will commit to voting for him no matter what, even were he in a coma…[and speaking of which] The professional Democrats all know that this is a disaster, and all of us should, too. Short-term ups and downs mean nothing for one simple reason: no number of good moments or days will be able to hide the fact that the number of bad moments, hours, and days will only increase as time goes on.
That is how dementia works. It is inexorable and an ugly process.
My schadenfreud at the Dems being committed to a sinking ship is tempered by what should be human compassion. As I’ve noted elsewhere, Biden appears to be suffering from the early stages of some kind of dementia. I lost my Mom to Alzheimers two years ago, and it is a merciless, remorseless bitch. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone short of Kim Jong Un.
The bad – or worse – news? Expect the social gaslighting to become intolerable.
Indeed – we only needed to wait til mid-day yesterday for it to symphonically swell.
More on that mid-day today.
July 2nd, 2024 at 9:50 am
Megan McArdle was on last Friday’s Dispatch Roundtable podcast talking about Biden’s debate performance. She went on a rant for 5-10 minutes about how physically and mentally incapable Biden is and how voting for him is a vote for a 25th Amendment Constitutional Crisis. She ended it by saying that she’s voting for Biden. SMH.
I get that there are right of center people that don’t like Trump and worry about the populist trajectory of the GOP. Then don’t vote for the Trump. But to actively violate everything belief a conservative (or in Megan’s self professed “right leaning libertarian”) claims to hold by voting for Democrat flabbergasts me. And that’s without taking into account the massive case of Elder Abuse that is Joe Biden’s life.
I asked my Dad what his thoughts are on the Debate before he listened or read any more sources on Friday morning. His response was to tell me that Trump lied about “as many as 30” things. That’s an awfully specific number from a guy that wasn’t taking notes. That’s a regurgitated talking point.
The Left and Anti-Trumpers are living in a different Reality from me. OTOH, the uber-MAGAs are also in a different Reality from me. And it all just sucks.