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Joe Biden is on vacation in the Virgin Islands. Nothing surprising about that; he has spent around 40 percent of his term on vacation. And that is the official White House tabulation. I suspect the true number is significantly higher. If it were a Republican president, that would be a scandal.

On a city street, Biden fielded a question:

My only point here is that Biden has been exactly like this for years. His incapacity has been obvious to anyone who paid attention.

The pretense that he suffered a precipitous decline in recent months may be absurd, but it is necessary. Without the myth of a late-term decline, the national press, the White House and Congressional Democrats would have no plausible defense to the charge that they sacrificed national security and well-being for partisan advantage.