Margot Cleveland is an investigative journalist and legal analyst and serves as The Federalist’s senior legal correspondent. Margot’s work has been published at The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, the New Criterion, National Review Online, Townhall.com, the Daily Signal, USA Today, and the Detroit Free Press.
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Whether it’s Biden or his inner circle making the decisions, their performance over the past three-plus years has set the world on fire.
President Biden’s cognitive incompetence renders him unfit for office. But so too does his performance over the last three-plus years that left America with a broken border, spiraling crime, high inflation, and a world on fire.
Since Joe Biden came out at the presidential debate as mentally incapacitated, the country’s focus has been on his continued service as commander-in-chief and whether Democrats should replace him as their candidate for November’s election. In fighting off calls that he be replaced, Biden and his apologists have taken two tacks. First, they are pretending his debate performance did not reveal his underlying cognitive decline, framing it as merely a “bad night,” caused by jet lag, over-preparedness, bad make-up, a cold, or a combination of all. Simultaneously, Biden and those defending the president posit that for all his shortcomings, Biden is still the better option because he tells the truth, Trump is a danger to our democracy, and Biden has a team helping run America. …