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Election at Bernie’s
It seems odd. Prior to July 21st, news organizations could not stop talking about the mental fitness and acuity of the candidates in the 2024 presidential race. Now it seems like anything goes. This is a delicate issue, so we’d like to make one thing clear: we harbor no prejudice against those who speak gibberish. Professor Irwin Corey had no more devoted fan. The line must be drawn, though, at the entrance to the Oval Office. The problem here is that if the media were to start applying the standards they once used on Joe Biden to the Republican nominee, they would immediately be buried under accusations of bias, libel, and slander. The media are in a box, but it’s one of their own making. The term may be new—and has long been badly needed—but they’ve been sanewashing Donald J. Trump since the day he glided down his gilded escalator. It was, almost literally, a deal with the devil. He put on a show, and…