{"id":11893,"date":"2019-07-08T23:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11893"},"modified":"2019-07-08T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:36:01","slug":"would-president-joe-biden-become-25th-amendment-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/would-president-joe-biden-become-25th-amendment-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Would President Joe Biden Become 25th Amendment Material?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ispeculate only because since January 2017 our popular culture and intelligentsia have suggested President Trump is crazy and should be removed under the 25th Amendment. Apparently, accusations about the mental health of presidents and would-be presidents are now legitimate political attack strategies under the new progressive rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe once bragged that he tried with former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to remove a supposedly unhinged Trump. Democratic members of Congress called in a Yale psychologist, Bandy X. Lee, to brief them that such Ivy League experts had diagnosed Trump in absentia as certainly unhinged. (She later attempted to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drdrew.com\/2018\/choose-words-carefully-dr-bandy-x-lee-clarifies-president-trump-mental-health-comments\/\">walk back<\/a>&nbsp;those claims.) The 25th Amendment, along with impeachment, the ossified Logan Act, and the Emoluments Clause, have now been mainlined by progressives as the sort of natural suspicions we cast on an elected president of the opposite party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, under these new progressive protocols, could a President Joe Biden be written off as delusional?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Addled Biden?<br><\/strong>Biden once suggested that George Bush get on TV after the 2008 meltdown in the manner that President Roosevelt had addressed the nation after the 1929 market crash: \u201cWhen the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn\u2019t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.\u201d Biden was referring to a time when neither FDR was president nor was television commercially available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/07\/would-president-joe-biden-become-25th-amendment-material\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Ispeculate only because since January 2017 our popular culture and intelligentsia have suggested President Trump is crazy and should be removed under the 25th Amendment. Apparently, accusations about the mental health of presidents and would-be presidents are now legitimate political attack strategies under the new progressive rules. After all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1218,1185,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11674,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-new-nihilism\/","url_meta":{"origin":11893,"position":0},"title":"The New Nihilism","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution As the 2020 election nears, there is as yet no coherent Democratic response to the Trump agenda. 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