Miranda Devine: Old Joe Biden haunts Demented Dems as they desperately try to flip the script claiming Trump is losing his mind
Having ignored Joe Biden’s cognitive meltdown the last four years, Democrats and their media handmaidens now are claiming that Donald Trump is “senile, nuts, or something worse,” as The Daily Beast put it.“Is Trump losing his mind à la Biden,” asked The Hill last week, describing the president as lost in “a whirlwind of apparent senility.”New Republic earlier this month reported unspecified “concerns over Trump’s cognitive decline since he first started to deliver weaving, nonsensical stump speeches on the presidential campaign trail.”When a barely lucid Biden stumbled around on stage and wandered off mid-sentence, they called it a “childhood stutter” and accused this newspaper of peddling “cheap fakes” and misinformation.Two weeks before his disastrous debate, The Washington Post fact-checker awarded “Four Pinocchios” to videos of a disoriented Biden meandering around the G7 that it said were “especially pernicious [and] intended to create a false narrative [that Biden] is too old for the job.”But now these same fakers pore over videos of Trump to find something, anything, to flip the script and pretend that the energetic, industrious president currently in the White House is the senile old man Biden seemed to be.After Biden’s cognitive collapse became undeniable during last year’s debate, partisan psychiatric experts Cornell senior lecturer Harry Siegel and his “Shrinking Trump” podcast co-host John Gartner defended the performance as simply a stutter and poor preparation, nothing to do with an addled mind.Now they claim “there is absolutely no doubt” that Trump has dementia, “as indicated by his strange gait, phonemic paraphasia — when he begins a word and can’t finish it — and decline in the complexity of his words and concepts.”This is Soviet-style mendacity, narrative gaslighting calculated to fool the public.But as long as Joe Biden keeps popping up in public, their ruse will fail because Americans c...