Heather Cox Richardson with President Joe Biden

God bless Heather Cox Richardson. You can read her letters for free on Substack and Facebook.

Heather Cox Richardson is one of the most reliable sources of information we have. As I have said many times, Democrats were railroaded by a fake media narrative about Joe Biden. We fell for it hook, line and sinker. With help from the right wing propaganda machine and corporate media. Our country has to solve this problem. It’s why Republicans stay in power when they have gone from merely having nothing to offer, to full-on traitors.

For followers who aren’t fans of watching video, I’ll share with you HCR’s first comments in print here for you to read.

“I talk about the Democrats more than I write about them because they’re not nuts… In this moment one of the things that people have asked me about is why didn’t people talk about Joe Biden being senile when he was in office. First of all, in my observation and I didn’t spend a huge amount of time with President Biden but I did spend time with him, I did talk to him.

What I always saw was a man with a fairly severe stutter who when he got tired the stutter got worse. But I never saw him unable to answer questions that were not scripted and to have a really good command of a wide range of material that was important. Now we know of course that Donald Trump doesn’t even read his presidential daily briefing.

So this idea somehow that he was kept hidden… he was the president of the United States – of course he wasn’t kept hidden.

And one of the things that I look at when I evaluate presidents is what are they getting done? And the Biden administration was one of the most consequential presidencies in American history. It got major legislation passed. It got major foreign relations stuff done.

Now if you think about that disastrous debate that Biden did, that was when he was negotiating the largest prisoner swap in American history that got back Evan Gershkovich for the United States and all these other prisoners as well.

So somehow this idea that there was this great conspiracy and Biden wasn’t really doing anything just doesn’t really hold water for me. So that’s what I have to say about Biden and this idea that somehow there should be hell to pay for no one talking about Biden’s abilities.

I mean I watched him really closely because I was one of the few people who was actually reporting on that administration rather than on whatever Trump was doing in that moment and I just find it enormously frustrating that so many people now are saying, you didn’t tell us… it was all there.. it was an incredibly transparent administration. They gave press conferences every day from all the major departments and they just didn’t get any press coverage.

One of the things that also frustrates me is people say Dems have doubled down on identity politics.. What the Dems have done is allowed Republicans to define them. Kamala Harris during the campaign literally never talked about identity politics. It was the Republicans who pinned that on them..”

She’s right. In a previous post I pointed out that Democrats, well everybody,  unconsciously take on the Republican point of view because their media is so dominant. That is the whole point of it and why we must start addressing the problem.

Watch the video.