But for those whose media diet is slim, and whose images of Biden were relegated to highly edited mainstream clips, they saw Biden in-the-real for the first time and it shocked the hell out of them. It was clear what so many have said before to little belief: The Emperor has no clothes on.
Some 85 percent of voters thought Biden was too frail to be president. That massive number of Americans must include almost everyone who has cared for an aging relative and knows the signs: mixed up words, forgotten details, the long, empty stares where conversation used to be.
Biden's boast that he faces a cognitive test every day is ironically borne out by the results: an endless war in the Ukraine where there is no path to victory, an endless war in Gaza where the Israel mocks Biden's red lines, and then the domestic issues of immigration and the economy, particularly intransigent inflation eating away at paychecks.
His own stubbornness and the games played around him weakened America at home and left it exposed and vulnerable to forces abroad.
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