Thursday night was Joe Biden’s big State of the Union address. The stakes were high because this is a very closely fought election.
The president of the United States is ailing. He has been trailing in the polls to Donald Trump, his arch-nemesis. But all he really had to do was be alive and be normal.
He did the first thing, but he couldn’t do the second thing — at all. One wonders what exactly his team thought they were doing when they wrote his State of the Union address, which was extraordinarily divisive, polarizing, and quite nasty. Did they think the only way to make him energetic enough for the speech was to ramp him up so high that they could not ramp him back down?
Whatever cocktail they used to awaken him, it was too much.
The address was a disaster in the making, although Democrats are now pretending they loved it. But they were always going to pretend they loved it….
