Few Democrats can say with a straight face that the US commander in chief is totally capable of steering the nation during one of its most dangerous and pivotal moments in history. But why did it take them so long to figure that out?

Despite having an entire week to prepare for his showdown against Donald Trump, and rumored to have been drugged to the eyeballs on performance-enhancing medication, elderly Joe Biden stumbled immediately out of the debate gates and never got back on his horse. The spectacle was so painful to watch that the main talking point among pundits following the event was: ‘Who will replace Biden?’

The greatest cringe moment came early in the night when the US leader, left to his own devices without wife and handlers nearby, suffered a brain freeze that lasted an interminable 15 seconds, which translates into an eternity on television. When questioned over his response to the Covid pandemic, all Biden could manage to mumble was that “we finally beat Medicare,” to which Trump shot back, “Well he’s right, he did beat Medicare, he beat it to death and he’s destroying Medicare.”

This debate making abundantly clear that Biden’s insistence on........

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