To Democrats’ dismay, the story is no longer about
Biden. After all, Biden’s creeping dementia isn’t news, since the vegetative former president sealed the deal with his disastrous debate. The story is now
about the coverup.
The Trump Team has unprecedented operational discipline. The audio release appears to have caught corporate media completely off guard. The New York Times ran a panicked story co-authored by Alex Thompson, one of the authors of the forthcoming book
Original Sin. The Times’ headline said, “
Audio Clip of Biden Special Counsel Interview Is Released, Showing Verbal Stumbles.” But positioned right over that story was a close companion, headlined “
Democrats Who Championed Biden’s Re-election Bid Now Seek Atonement.”
The second story addressed the coverup. “As the Democratic Party faces record low approval ratings,” the Times reported, “many party strategists and officials believe it must rebuild trust in its brand beginning with confronting how the party handled the 2024 race.”
In other words, the Times is desperately trying to recapture a narrative it sees slipping into the ocean depths. Evidently, the Times has concluded this requires a limited hangout, and
some kind of explanation for why Democrats covered up Biden’s obvious lack of ability to do the most important job on the planet.
Make no mistake— they get it. Democrats traded electability for incompetence. “The power of incumbency, Democratic officials argued, outweighed well-documented concerns from their voters about
his fitness for the job,” reporters explained.

A pile-on is mounting. The Times’ article quoted Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who said, “Democrats must now openly admit that the former president was
unfit for a second term and should not have run.” The story next quoted former Representative Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.), who counseled Democrats hoping for a 2028 run to “cleanse yourself of any culpability you may have had when you stayed silent while so much was at stake.”
Sadly, when Cunningham referred to “so much at stake,” he probably meant
losing the election rather than
avoiding World War III. But still.
The Times’ emerging “confession tour” suggestion is fraught with risk. What should Democrats say? Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer leaned into
ignorance. “I was busy working,” she told CNN. “I didn’t see the president frequently,” she lamely offered as an excuse.
Whitmer was a co-chair of
Biden’s campaign.
If, on the other hand, they claim they were
misled, it just raises more questions. “We were misled” is a classic passive-voice dodge. Who,
precisely, misled them? If they say “White House aides,” that spurs inquiry into what
else those aides might have been doing that only the brain-damaged chief executive should legally have done.
And if they blame “aides,” then the next natural question is: why did they ignore
their own senses? It’s not like nobody was pointing out Biden’s many missteps and brain resets. It was practically unavoidable. Clips flooded social media, dismissed as “cheap fakes.” Trump had even nicknamed the Cabbage in Chief as “Sleepy Joe Biden.”
The top Democrats all had access to the man himself. They called him. They met with him. So, what gives?
We can expect Democrats, already squirming in public, to further shrink like salted snails. The Biden coverup problem is not going anywhere— not anytime soon, at least. It is, in fact, more like Tapper and Thompson’s
Original Sin, a transgression that will stain the party’s brand until three generations of voters pass away.
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