Yeah, I get the augments about declining mental capacity and I guess there's a case to be made there, but I'm not at all on board with making that case. Because while it's may be valid it takes oxygen away all of the other blatantly in your face reason that are exponentially more import as to why he until to occupy the office of the presidency, to whit:
- He's an antidemocratic wannabe authoritarian whose goal it is is to end American democracy as we know it.
- He seeks to access the levers of power by dividing Americans against their fellow Americans.
- He's a racist POS.
- He's performatively cruel. With Trump, the cruelty is the point.
To be honest, his metal capacity really has't even diminished that much relative to where it was during his first term. Remember, this is the man who mused if maybe drinking bleach might be an effective public health measure to combat Covid, for Pete's sake!
I think my main objection to this line of argument is that when employed, in isolation at least, to would logically follow that both Biden and Trump are would be equally bad in a holding the office of president in 2024. I mean, you could argue the mental decline was we've witnessed is ballpark the same degree in both candidates.
If you think Biden would make a better POTUS than Trump, then it's likely not based on mental acuity, but rather on something from my list above (or one of the many many other disqualifying factors that I left of that list).
We need to be talking about those things, IMO.
