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Big difference between Reagan & Biden. Caused me to Google.
Found this. He's on to something. It was about a confusing conference Biden did the first of the year and this person's reaction:

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"Did Reagan Suffer from Dementia? Does Biden?
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Dr. Bastiat January 20, 2022
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there are some critics who use answers like the one above to suggest that Mr. Biden must have some form of dementia. I think those critics are way off base.

Is this answer less coherent than his speeches from 40-50 years ago? Of course not. You never know what Mr. Biden is going to say. And neither does Mr. Biden. He never has.

It’s possible that he has some form of dementia. Hard to say. But I’m convinced that this is just how his brain works, even on a good day. He’s always been like this. He would have struggled with a regular job, like a truck driver or a factory worker. I don’t think he could have managed that. Can you imagine him keeping track of a logbook or a time card? He would have needed help to deal with details like that.

He excelled in politics through a lack of ethics, not through a powerful intellect.

This is not disease or old age. This is just who Joe Biden is. It’s who he’s always been. Just ask Clarence Thomas, who didn’t understand many of Mr. Biden’s questions during his hearings. Mr. Biden graduated 76th out of 85 students at Syracuse Law School, after having been kicked out for plagiarism. Mr. Thomas is one of the great legal minds of our era. Mr. Thomas had no idea what Mr. Biden was talking about. Because most of Biden’s questions sounded like his answer above.

After Jimmy Carter’s spectacular failures 45 years ago, his leftist supporters suggested that perhaps the world was sufficiently complex that the Presidency was too complicated for one man to manage. Even after Ronald Reagan proved them wrong, those leftists just couldn’t see that the problem with Jimmy Carter was not his intellect, but his leftism.

Dwelling on Mr. Biden’s supposed dementia is a mistake.

First of all, it may not be true. It’s not at all clear that he is worse off intellectually than he was 50 years ago.

But more importantly, the problem with Mr. Biden is not his cognitive difficulties, but his leftism.

Did Ronald Reagan have early Alzheimer’s disease during his term as president? Perhaps. But he governed as a conservative, and conservatism works, so it was ok. He lost his memory – not his judgment. Even in a weakened state, Mr. Reagan would not have opened our borders, doubled our money supply, shut down our energy production, retreated from Afghanistan, defunded the police, allowed our history to be destroyed, promoted gender and race conflicts, and so on. He might have needed help with his daily schedule. He didn’t need help with reality. He was a conservative.

If he had been a leftist like Carter, he would have failed like Carter. If he had been a leftist like Biden, he would have failed like Biden.

But he wasn’t a leftist. So he succeeded. Even though he may have suffered from the same disease as Mr. Biden might be suffering from. The disease doesn’t matter as much as their ideology. A secretary can tell you when your next meeting is. But if the president really believes that you can keep printing money until inflation stops, then there is no cure for that. Leftism is a metastatic disease with no known cure. Just ask Californians. Or, now, Texans (having been over-run by Californians). Or Venezuelans. Or Cubans. Or anyone that has been touched by leftism.
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Mr. Biden suffers from leftism. And now, so do we.

Dementia is not the problem. Leftism is. It doesn’t matter who the president is, or how smart they are. The person doesn’t matter. Their age doesn’t matter. Where they went to college doesn’t matter.

Leftism matters.

Leftism is destructive. Regardless of who is promoting it.

Let’s stay focused on the real problem, here…"

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