The cultural elites got a free ride under Biden. That ends now.
The tragedy of Joe Biden is not only his cognitive decline. It is not only his very public demise, his transformation from an upright man who spoke in a Pennsylvania boom to a shuffling old fella whispering inanities to the world. It is not only that he ascended to power posing as the defender of the republic and three years later was yakking incoherently in a CNN clash with Donald Trump. ‘Democracy has prevailed’, he told the audience at his inauguration on 20 January 2021, two weeks after a Trumpist mob had sacked the Capitol in a fit of undemocratic pique. ‘We finally beat Medicare’, he mumbled surreally in that CNN debate. From the republic’s protector to its most memed jester – it was a fall of King Lear proportions.
