It’s clearly not ideal to have a president who is not young enough to think on his/ her feet. To be clear, I don’t think that Biden had cognitive problems for most of his presidency. I saw plenty of interviews where he was quite astute. But the job of president is exhausting, particularly for someone who does the job the right way, which means bringing together information from multiple sources and making hundreds of decisions. The presidency ages people, which is clearly more acute in later stages of life.
However the difference between the Biden administration and the Trump administration is that Biden had surrounded himself with the best, highly educated and deeply-experienced career public servants who knew the job of government and understood the Constitution and the laws, whereas Trump has broadly surrounded himself with inexperienced people with no knowledge of government, who have no problem breaking laws, defying the constitution, and weaving a web of perception that actually doesn’t exist in reality.
We should not forget that this current Cabinet, as well as the unelected officials actually making decisions (like Elon Musk or Stephen Miller) have been and are continuing to be sanctioned by our majority GOP House and Senate, who know better but refuse to do their jobs to protect the rule of law and reign in this Executive Branch, which is abusing its power.
Because of the differences in their appointees and staff, when Biden‘s health declined, the policies and astute decisions he had made before were carried out to the benefit of the American people. In Trump‘s case, it is being handed to people who are ignoring the rule of law and have no idea what they are doing. We are all living the consequences of that right now.
Thanks, Sarah! I agree with you on the differences in appointees and staff between Biden and Trump. We are definitely living the consequences now of both those willing to defy the Constitution and the complacency of the GOP House and Senate...
Stephen, please run for something!
It’s clearly not ideal to have a president who is not young enough to think on his/ her feet. To be clear, I don’t think that Biden had cognitive problems for most of his presidency. I saw plenty of interviews where he was quite astute. But the job of president is exhausting, particularly for someone who does the job the right way, which means bringing together information from multiple sources and making hundreds of decisions. The presidency ages people, which is clearly more acute in later stages of life.
However the difference between the Biden administration and the Trump administration is that Biden had surrounded himself with the best, highly educated and deeply-experienced career public servants who knew the job of government and understood the Constitution and the laws, whereas Trump has broadly surrounded himself with inexperienced people with no knowledge of government, who have no problem breaking laws, defying the constitution, and weaving a web of perception that actually doesn’t exist in reality.
We should not forget that this current Cabinet, as well as the unelected officials actually making decisions (like Elon Musk or Stephen Miller) have been and are continuing to be sanctioned by our majority GOP House and Senate, who know better but refuse to do their jobs to protect the rule of law and reign in this Executive Branch, which is abusing its power.
Because of the differences in their appointees and staff, when Biden‘s health declined, the policies and astute decisions he had made before were carried out to the benefit of the American people. In Trump‘s case, it is being handed to people who are ignoring the rule of law and have no idea what they are doing. We are all living the consequences of that right now.
Thanks, Sarah! I agree with you on the differences in appointees and staff between Biden and Trump. We are definitely living the consequences now of both those willing to defy the Constitution and the complacency of the GOP House and Senate...