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Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Original Sin review — how the Democrats tried to hide Biden's decline
By the start of the presidential campaign of 2024 most Americans, who care very little about politics but understand what it means to be human and get older, had decided that Joe Biden was in no fit state to run again. We know this because they told pollsters, repeatedly. An ABC survey in February of that year revealed that a staggering 86 per cent of voters — including 73 per cent of Democrats — wanted him out of the race. Americans agree about little. They agreed about this. Original Sin tells us that the voters were right. And how they became victims of one of the great political cover-ups of modern times: an organised effort to tell people that the evidence of their own eyes
Times
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Gaslighting America — how the Democrats tried, and failed, to cover up Biden's ailing health
By the start of the presidential campaign of 2024 most Americans, who care very little about politics but understand what it means to be human and get older, had decided that Joe Biden was in no fit state to run again. We know this because they told pollsters, repeatedly. An ABC survey in February of that year revealed that a staggering 86 per cent of voters — including 73 per cent of Democrats — wanted him out of the race. Americans agree about little. They agreed about this. Original Sin tells us that the voters were right. And how they became victims of one of the great political cover-ups of modern times: an organised effort to tell people that the evidence of their own eyes
