They lied to you.
And after Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, there is no amount of gaslighting or deceit that’s going to fool voters again.
Biden’s mental acuity, never something to write home about, has considerably deteriorated over the past couple of years.
It’s not his fault.
He’s an octogenarian.
Time comes for everyone.
Yet it’s now clear that Democrats and the sycophantic major media mobilized to conceal Biden’s mental and physical decline from the public.
The effort began when Biden was running for president from the comfort of his home in 2020, and it’s only picked up steam since.
When Robert Hur let Biden slide for pilfering classified documents, describing him as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” the entire left wing maligned the special counsel’s character and professionalism.
The White House accused Hur of leveling “gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms.”
Biden toady Joe Scarborough, who spent months swearing the president was the sharpest man he’d ever met, accused Hur of coming “from Trump university” and called the report “garbage.”
They knew Hur was right.
Why do you think Merrick Garland is refusing to hand over audio of Biden’s rambling interview with Hur, in which he forgets when his son died?
Where does Hur go for his apology?
For that matter, where does The Post go?
After highlighting the president’s bizarre wander-off at the G-7, where Italian Prime Minister Georgi had to rescue him, and his freeze-ups at an LA fundraiser and a Juneteenth event, The Post was skewered for suggesting he’s suffering from mental decline.
Does anyone doubt the veracity of The Post’s reporting now?
Only last week, a concerted effort by major media outlets like NBC News and The New York Times was meant to convince voters that a video of Biden freezing up at the fundraiser and being led off the stage by former president Barack Obama was misinformation.
Talk about projection.
The White House also claimed videos of the president wandering off into a field during the G7 summit in Italy or struggling to sit down at a D-Day commemoration in France were “cheap fakes.”
Unscrupulous media fact-checkers helped Democrats deceive the public by smearing a veneer of alleged journalistic credibility over this dangerous lie.
Thursday’s debate exposed them all.
In mere days, the entire left-wing punditsphere has gone from praising Biden’s uncanny mental acuteness to demanding Democrats start a conversation about replacing the president as the nominee.
They are shameless.
Democrats aren’t freaking out because they’ve just discovered Biden isn’t up for the job.
They are freaking out because everyone else has discovered it.
There is no going back.
Replacing Biden has always seemed somewhat farfetched.
It’s a logistical nightmare for Democrats.
Plus, there are so many built-in advantages to the incumbency.
But Biden’s performance changes the calculus for Democrats.
Or rather, the truth does.
It’s still a big lift, of course.
First, there is the question of convincing the president, who has a huge ego, to step aside — no small task.
Would Democrats really use the 25th Amendment and declare Biden unable to discharge his duties and powers of the president?
It seems unlikely.
The unintended political fallout could be devastating.
Then there is the matter of who takes over.
Surely there would be a fight between top Democrats for the nomination.
Why wouldn’t they back Kamala Harris, who was put on the ticket for this very eventuality?
And if not Kamala, why are Democrats throwing the first black woman vice president to the curb?
Whoever it is, how can voters ever trust a political media that not only abdicated its duty to the American people but became a propaganda arm for a dangerously inept president?
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist.
Twitter @davidharsanyi
