Fintan O’Toole: Democrats and their media allies pretended everything was fine. It’s not fine

Fintan O’Toole: The United States is in imminent danger of being handed back to a Trump who is vastly more malign than he was in 2016Joe Biden: The US president has convinced himself that he is the only one who can beat Donald Trump in November's election. Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

The ageing process affects individuals in different ways. Back in February, I did a public event in Dublin with Bernie Sanders, who is 82 – a year older than Biden. He was, in public and private, razor sharp and mentally vigorous. The same is true of our own president Michael D. Higgins who, at 83, is also older than Biden.

The baby boomers who once thrilled to Bob Dylan’s youthful scorn as he sang “Senators, congressmen/Please heed the call/Don’t stand in the doorway/Don’t block up the hall” have stood in the doorway watching an unfolding political tragedy and mentally blocked out what is staring them in the face. It’s a delusion because it demands the denial of a very clear fact: Americans don’t want an elderly president. In opinion surveys, only three per cent of American adults say it is best for US presidents to be in their 70s or older. Nearly half of Democrats say the best age for presidents is in their 50s, while a quarter prefer presidents in their 40s. These are, indeed, the age ranges at the time of election of all Democratic presidents since 1961 – except Biden.

Trump has, indeed, seemed in some of his speeches to suggest that he defeated Barack Obama in 2016, that Obama is the current president and that Kim Jong-un is the ruler of China. Yet what everybody surely knows by now is that Trump is judged according to different standards. However mad he seems, it’s just Trump being Trump.into Biden’s retention of official documents at his homes.

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