How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” is a reconstruction of what Democrats should have known and when they should have known it.

I always got the same answer: He’s great. Completely in command. His energy is amazing.

In what possible definition of the presidency — or of running a re-election campaign — is the ability to communicate with the public not core to the job? 

And how could you believe that capacity had degraded — but nothing else had?

These are people I had known for a long time. I didn’t think they were lying to me. But the harder question, in retrospect, was whether they were lying to themselves.

I think people know that when the report came out, the prosecutor called Biden a well-meaning old man with a flagging memory.

Something like that, yes. Which, by the way, is a nice description. That’s not a mean description. It’s an accurate, nice description.

Ezra Klein New York Tmes 21 May 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jake-tapper.html

 

The great Biden cover-up and how the Democrats lost 2024

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-great-biden-cover-up-and-how.html

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