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Abcarian: America was gaslit by the arrogance of Joe Biden and his enablers

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David Gergen : In March 2024 , I wrote a column about President Biden ’s State of the Union speech with a confident headline: “ Chill out, my fellow Americans . Your president isn’t cognitively impaired.” Gergen says Biden is back in the news thanks to “ Original Sin: President Biden 's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” He says Biden 's insistence on running for a second term, despite his promise to be a one -term “bridge,” and his belated decision to drop out, is how we got to where we are today .

We, myself included, missed a lot of this story, and some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows... We should have done better.” I take his point. We are now living with the consequences of our failures. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times ..

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