Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Is The Worm Turning?

 There seems to finally be some recognition among the media that Trump's age should be an issue they look at. Of course, a quick scan of the Times and Post does not find the sort of breathless wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's manifest confusion and gibberish that we saw because of Biden's terrible debate performance. However, the Biden Debate Debacle came AFTER a few months of concern about his age. The increasing number of stories about his age and his constant cancelling of events should begin to create a "story about the story" dynamic. If "people are talking about it" then the press will have to talk about what people are talking about.

He looks cooked. He sounds cooked. Let's stick a fork in him. 

(Also, be wary of reading too much into early voting.)

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