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The president of decline

The president of decline

As American society crumbles, Biden's state of mind is an apt and terrible metaphor

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Melanie Phillips
Jul 27, 2021
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Ruins of the Colosseum, Rome; credit, Jean-Pol Grandmont

I’m reading more and more astonishing accounts of US President Joe Biden’s verbal and behavioural lapses which suggest advancing cognitive decline.

In June, at the European Union summit in Brussels the day before he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Biden’s brain appeared to malfunction

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