Of all the maladies that afflict present-day politics, the increasingly irresponsible role that partisans have played is surely at the top of the list. Partisanship, in reasonable doses, was once a healthy part of our body politic. The two political parties typically served as the saucer cooling the passions from the ideologically driven grassroots—and cared
LONDON—When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the cause of liberty nearly a quarter of a millennia ago, many of them expected independence from Britain would set America on a different course from Europe’s. People, goods, and ideas would still cross the Atlantic, and they hoped
Carl Bernstein said Biden’s dismal debate performance was not a “one-off” The “horror show” Americans witnessed at the presidential debate Thursday is not a “one-off” for President Joe Biden, infamous Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein said, citing 15-20 instances in the past year and a half where Biden’s behavior mirrored his disastrous debate performance. “The Joe
In a Zoom call with hundreds of upset party donors on Monday, Biden campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon dismissed concerns that President Joe Biden is too old to run for reelection. “He’s probably in better health than most of us,” O’Malley Dillon told the roughly 500 virtual attendees, all members of the campaign’s National Finance
Octogenarian president plagued by dismal polls and disgruntled allies following disastrous debate performance (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) For a short time on Friday, the Biden campaign appeared ready to turn the page from its 81-year-old leader’s horrific debate performance against former president Donald Trump. A speech from Joe Biden in North Carolina prompted positive reviews in
Believe it or not, some of us were not actually surprised by President Joe Biden’s catastrophe of a debate performance. What the evening exposed was not Biden’s infirmity, though it did that too, but the years-long effort on the part of various White House communications aides, Democratic lawmakers, and mainstream media organs to gaslight the
Roughly 14 hours after his disastrous debate performance against former president Donald Trump, President Joe Biden leaned into his age-related decline, saying that while he does not walk, speak, or debate as well as he used to, he can still serve another four years as America’s commander in chief. “I know I’m not a young