Among the myriad problems Justin Trudeau is confronting, two have an immediacy that must be especially troubling. One is political, the other economic.
The political problem is the miraculous improvement in presidential prospects for the Democratic Party since its power brokers, who had shamelessly insisted until the very end how “sharp” Joe Biden was, finally confronted reality and threw him under the bus. Their motivation was not patriotic concern (though that’s their story and they’re sticking with it). The disastrous June 27th debate merely revealed what everyone in contact with the president already knew and what 70 per cent of Americans had been telling pollsters for months: Biden’s obvious cognitive and physical decline made him incapable of serving four more years in office. The bus only arrived, however, once polls began to show he was certain to lose to a Republican they viscerally despise and fear.
