Talking heads. The airwaves are full of ‘em. Loud, self-assured, peddling one opinion or another, carving out their niche, or trying to. We listened to a recent podcast from Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, who spoke reassuringly about Joe Biden’s less-than-stellar debate performance. Mr. Wilson doesn’t seem too worried, or didn’t in the immediate aftermath.
But we flipped to other more recent clips and got a different sense for the level of alarm and hair-on-fire panic that seems to be spreading through certain media personalities and even among Democratic Party operatives.
I guess the public will make up its own mind, but the commentary people are liable to hear seems likely to be weighted toward skepticism regarding Biden’s fitness for wearing the mantle for another 4 years—years that will surely test the fittest of office holders. The fact that he’s not Donald Trump still matters, but it appears, currently, to matter much less than it did in 2020.
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