Commentators at Axios made an interesting admission on Saturday when they said that only a select “Biden oligarchy” would be able to decide if the President steps aside, raising questions about who exactly has been running the United States while President Biden fades further and further into dementia, and for how long.
“Forget the pundits. Ignore New York Times editorials and columnists. Tune out people popping off on X,” wrote Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei.
“The only way President Biden steps aside, despite his debate debacle, is if the same small group of lifelong loyalists who enabled his run suddenly — and shockingly — decides it’s time for him to call it quits.”
Miller and Vandehei identify this group as Biden’s wife, his younger sister, the President’s advisor Ted Kaufman and “a small band of White House advisers.”
“This decades-long kitchen cabinet operates as an extended family, council of elders and governing oligarchy. These allies alone hold sway over decisions big and small in Biden’s life and presidency.”
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The fact-checking piece is supposed to provide reassurance that the country is in safe hands, but instead it raises questions about why and for how long the president—and the nation—has been in the hands of this unelected “governing oligarchy.”
Talk of Biden being a “front” or “puppet” for other people and other interests has been dismissed as a “conspiracy theory,” and the mainstream media have danced loops to prove that Biden is “actually in charge of the Biden administration.”
New York magazine dismissed the idea as a “deranged conspiracy theory” typical of Donald Trump and his supporters.
“The Trump version of this attack is a characteristically deranged conspiracy theory, in which some other person, either Barack Obama or Kamala Harris, is actually running the presidency while decrepit Joe Biden is being spooned mouthfuls of apple sauce.”
But now Axios has confirmed it: Biden is not in control of his own presidency, if he ever was.
