opens to a crescent shape. But still the words don’t come. He digs in harder, reach-


ing back deeper, searching for that key that would allow the ideas in his mind to manifest into physical reality. However, the right words won’t come out. The ones that


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do are cluttered, muddled — an incomprehensible string of consonants sprinkled with an occasional vowel. It is the sound of nonsense. For some on the political right, Biden’s mental health


struggles have become a seemingly never-ending source of clickbait-worthy comic fodder. Clips of Biden speeches — often edited down to a few sentences of incoherent babble — trend regularly on social media. A YouTube channel set up by The Washington Free Bea-


con titled “Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week” has reached over 70 episodes, with each one regularly garnering thousands of views and hundreds of comments from people quick to diagnose the president with dementia or worse. However, for many American families, what appears to


be happening to Biden through the lens of their screen is a sad yet all-too-familiar scene — the “slowing down” of a loved one. Mental decline has long been recognized as a common


part of the aging process. The umbrella term adopted by the medical community, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), has been used by physicians to cover a broad set of neurological conditions to describe people who have memory or think- ing problems, and is estimated to affl ict about a quarter of all adults between the ages of 80 and 84. In most households, this life transition is usually treated with respect, reverence, and an unspoken acknowledge-


oseph robinette biden jr. is fro- zen. A palpable sense of apprehen- sion hums through the air as the vacant stare continues for a long, grueling beat. Just when it seems that it can’t get


any more uncomfortable, his blue eyes spring back to life and his mouth


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