History won’t be kind to the Biden administration—and not because of its policies or partisan squabbles, but because of the lie that sat grinning in the Oval Office while democracy staggered behind the curtain.

For years, we were told President Joe Biden was “fine.”

He was sharp. Functional. Engaged. “Better than the alternative.”

What we weren’t told—what we now know—was that he wasn’t running the country. He couldn’t.

And they knew.

They all knew.

The Silent Coup of Complacency

It’s now admitted. Whispered no longer. Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was not just present—it was active, visible, and dangerous. Not a slip. Not aging gracefully. A hollowing out of the most powerful office in the world while everyone in the room agreed to look the other way.

The question we should’ve been asking—“Who is actually running the government?”—was drowned out by think pieces, partisanship, and denial. Not because the answer was unclear, but because the answer was terrifying.

A democracy cannot function on a lie.

And yet, for how long did we live that way?

How long did Chief of Staff Ron Klain steer the ship? When Klain quietly stepped down in early 2023 many of us wondered if he had been running things for a long time.

How many decisions were signed by Biden’s name but not his hand?

How many national security briefings were watered down to flashcards and nods?

How many press conferences were canceled, scripts rewritten, optics managed, disasters deflected?

The Cost of the Cover-Up

This wasn’t mercy. It wasn’t compassion.

It was cowardice weaponized for political survival.

They robbed the American people of clarity. They fed us stability through silence. And in doing so, they gave us neither.

We didn’t elect a President. We inherited a Weekend at Bernie’s administration—with global consequences.

The Democrats told us not to ask questions.

The Republicans pretended to care while licking their chops for the chaos.

And the American people? They were given no transparency, no accountability, no damn truth.

No One Was Driving

This was not a glitch in democracy.

It was a controlled crash.

The White House became a shell. Power became a ghost..

And through it all, we watched the erosion of faith in the office, in the process, in the entire illusion of adult supervision.

Biden’s legacy will not be legislation. It will not be policy.

It will be the era of looking the other way while democracy sleepwalked toward the abyss.

It will be a presidential campaign led by a man who likely could not dress himself.

It will be the collapse of the Democrats and a loss of trust so severe an honest tyrant was able to win an election.

And what we’re left with now—post-presidency—is a bitter question echoing through history:

If no one was at the wheel…

why did we let the engine keep running?

And now, with power back in the hands of Trump, a man consumed by ego, grievance, and spectacle—what will we do if Donald Trump also begins, or continues, to mentally unravel?

Will we lie again? Look away again?

Will we once more let loyalty override truth—until the system breaks beneath another throne propped up by delusion?

Or will we finally admit:

The health of a democracy can’t survive the decay of its leaders—no matter what team they play for.