Our Biden problem and our Trump problem are the same problem
Photo by Aaron Kittredge For the last few years, I've been asking a question: Will we know when American democracy ends? I don't know. But it seems to me there's a real possibility it happened Monday, when the Supreme Court ruled that presidents -- well, Donald Trump, but supposedly all presidents -- have "absolute immunity" for official acts committed while in office. If the president is above the law, if there is no real way to stop him from abusing his power (and impeachment doesn't really count at this point; it's a dead letters) then ... what, exactly, restrains a president from acting tyrannically? So there's that. But that's not what I want to talk about today. Instead, I want to talk about my friend Will Bunch, and his latest column at the Philadelphia Inquirer , which takes to task all the journalists who have focused obsessively on Joe Biden's age in the days since last week's disastrous debate. Dropping names — Whitmer! Shapir