John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. Find him @editorialboard.bsky.social .
He can’t change a lifetime of habits.
His greatest asset has been his greatest liability.
Trump’s smear job against Joe Biden climaxed prematurely, and now that the vice president has taken over, he doesn’t know what to do.
As a consequence, the public can’t see his impotence.
So he’s preventing wider discussion of the effect of rightwing political violence on democratic politics, though doing so endangers his life.
If the vice president can maintain her current momentum, Trump is going to look, by contrast, older, weirder and more emasculated.
That’s going to help the vice president.
A counterpoint to Monday’s edition.
The press and pundit corps have been talking about the president’s age for so long that public concern about the age of candidates is baked in.
There’s nothing elitist, antidemocratic, rigged or wrong with it.