By Victor Davis Hanson | Townhall.com
Source: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Recently, Biden has pivoted repeatedly on stage with his arm outstretched to shake the hand -- of someone not there.
On one recent occasion, Biden called out for Representative
Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., who passed away in a car crash in
early August. He was insistent, shouting to the crowd,
"Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I think she wasn't
going to be here -- to help make this a reality."
Biden's fantasy was the reality that Walorski is no longer with
us.
Biden slurs his words. He truncates sentences. He speaks in a
muddled voice that often makes comprehension impossible. When
questioned, he grows irate, growls, and stutters.
Biden's messaging is even more confusing than his medium. On
any given day, Biden may impetuously announce that U.S.
soldiers will defend the soil of Taiwan, or that the "killer"
Russian President Vladimir Putin, unhinged head of nuclear
Russia, must be removed from office promptly.
If Biden doesn't like a question, he may deride the reporter
as a "stupid son of a bitch." He habitually lies about
everything from COVID-19 vaccinations being unavailable until
his presidency to the nature of his son's military service.
Biden confuses Iran with Ukraine. He calls a senior African
American assistant "my boy."
For much of the Trump presidency, leftist opponents sought to
remove him by the 25th Amendment. A Yale psychiatrist
diagnosed Trump in absentia and declared him deserving of a
straitjacket forced intervention. Partisan charges grew so
intense that Trump voluntarily took -- and aced -- the
Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Strangely, the same Left armchair psychiatrists offer no such
worries about Biden's clear mental decline.
One reason Biden enjoys immunity from removal is that his
57-year-old vice president, Kamala Harris, is seen to be even
more incoherent and ill-informed.
Harris cannot plead age as the cause of her mental confusion.
Yet, the more the public sees and hears Harris' mixed-up word
salads, and bizarre cackling spells, the more it is convinced
that she is either ignorant or intellectually lazy -- or both.
Recently while at the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas,
she read from a prepared speech that the United States honors
its "very important," "strong," and "enduring," "alliance" --
with the communist, genocidal "Republic of North Korea."
For those other than the vice president, North Korea is the
sworn enemy of the United States, and is officially known as
the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
Millions of Floridians remain currently displaced by Hurricane
Ian. In response, Harris recently reassured them that impending
federal assistance would be predicated not on need or
individual disasters, but the basis of skin color.
Translated that would mean that millions of the homeless, white
middle-class should wait in line for relief, given Harris's
promises to "fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts
at the same place."
Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi is 82. At times she too seems
trapped in her world disconnected from reality. Pelosi
recently mixed up Taiwan with mainland Communist China, and
thus exclaimed "China is one of the freest societies in the
world."
She stood up and weirdly rubbed her clenched fists together when
Biden in his state of the union address darkly mentioned the
dangers of soldiers inhaling toxic fumes from burn pits.
Of course, after one of Trump's SOTU addresses, Pelosi proceeded
indignantly to tear up her copy of the speech on national
television.
More recently, Pelosi defended open borders and the vast
influxes of illegal aliens by crassly claiming "We need
migrants to pick crops."
Pelosi's startling revelation of progressive condescension was
reminiscent of NBC retweeting the liberal commentator who
said of the movement of immigrants, "It's like me taking my
trash out and just driving to different areas where I live and
just throwing my trash there."
The Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania John Fetterman is
running for senator in his home state. His handlers try to keep
him from questioners. They duck debates. And they count on
the media to edit videos of his increasingly rare and bizarre
appearances.
Why?
Fetterman recently suffered a severe life-threatening stroke,
the details, and prognoses of which he has yet to fully
disclose.
Like Biden, Fetterman is now severely cognitively impaired.
He cannot finish a coherent sentence while campaigning.
Almost daily Fetterman suffers long bouts of incoherence.
He even becomes confused over where exactly he and his crowd
are: "Send us back to New Jersey and send me to DC."
The Democratic Party's top hierarchy is run by octogenarians
and septuagenarians. In the case of Biden and Pelosi,
their powerful positions and age-related cognitive disabilities
startle both Americans and allies abroad.
Why is the supposed party of youth dominated by such frail and
forgetful elderly?
Maybe because the alternative of the next generation of would-be
leaders waiting in the wings -- like Kamala Harris or John
Fetterman -- is more frightening still.
