In politics, as in so many fields of endeavor, timing is everything. In this election year, regarding the presidential election, the Democrats really screwed up.
It was very apparent early on that Joe Biden was losing it. By spring, it was obvious that he was getting worse; he couldn’t answer a question without wandering off into a nonsensical ramble. His flashes of unfounded anger, difficulties with finding words, and inappropriate gestures and behavior, especially around young women and children, painted a vivid picture of a man in the throes of dementia. But his administration and Democrats in Congress, along with the liberal and progressive legacy media, just kept whistling past that graveyard. “He’s fine,” they insisted, “He’s as sharp as a tack,” and “He’s beaten Donald Trump once, and he can do it again.”
Then came the first scheduled presidential debate, and all that came…