America's big problem is not Biden, it's the menace to democracy posed by Trump

It wasn't so much what Joe Biden said, it was how he said it. His voice was weak and shaky, he lost his way, forgot what he was saying. He sounded feeble. He sounded old. Very old. And the storm of white-hot criticism that rained down on his head from friends and foes alike after the 2024 election's embarrassing and disastrous first presidential TV debate with Donald Trump was blistering. It was sad and painful to watch. Republicans were jubilant. They think it's all over bar the voting. They claimed Biden had only one objective: to prove, at 81, that…