Everyone saw it. Not even most Democrats could deny it. President Joe Biden looked positively decrepit in the first presidential debate on Thursday night. He struggled to maintain trains of thought. He garbled words and flubbed statistics. He looked like an old man long past his capability of serving as president of the United States.
Coming to that conclusion should not be a partisan claim. It should not even be controversial. Thursday night’s Democratic disaster really did not tell us anything new. Anyone paying attention can see that Biden has lost a step or three both physically and mentally. But the debate did push that reality in the faces of the voters, preventing it from residing as a background thought in our normal lives.
Whatever the political fallout, Biden should find a way to step away as gracefully and peacefully as possible. He showed the opposite of what the…
