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Personally, I never thought he had a chance for a positive legacy. Especially now that all of the machinations behind the scenes to protect his image are being exposed and prompting the public to ask what is really going on?

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s obituary will be stalked by the counterfactual: What if he hadn’t made the selfish decision to run for reelection? What if he had passed the torch a year or even six months earlier?

That makes for a grim parlor game.

The way that events unfolded—his catastrophic debate performance, the stark clarity with which the nation came to understand his geriatric state–-beggars belief. Why didn’t Democrats stage an intervention earlier? Why didn’t his aides stop him from running?

The absurd premise of the Biden reelection campaign, that it made sense for the nation to trust itself to a president who would finish his term at the age of 86, invites conspiratorial explanations.

There’s no need to go searching for hidden scandals, however, because the visible one is sufficiently terrible. Democrats ignored a cascade of warning signs.

The evidence that Biden wasn’t fit for a second term was abundantly clear in his public appearances—and in the public appearances that he studiously avoided. Advisers knew that Biden’s instinct was always to invest faith in his own capacities, but they never made a concerted effort to talk him back from his decision to run, until it was far too late.

Donald Trump is now THEIR legacy too.

This seems to be another of a long string of admissions from progressive media and appears to indicate they finally recognize the damage they’ve inflicted on the nation and are looking for redemption. I can’t imagine The Atlantic ever making such statements as little as 6 months ago.

That’s great for The Atlantic. They’ve recognized their problem. BUT,… that’s the first step of their redemption path. However, I won’t be rushing out for a subscription.

As my father used to say (paraphrasing):

It only takes a minute to lose someone’s trust but
it will take a long time to gain that trust back.

At least, they are making an attempt. Maybe too little too late, but they’re trying. Sadly, there remains too many more who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge what has happened and continue to repeat what has been thoroughly debunked.