Picture a split-screen. Ronald Reagan, standing before the Berlin Wall in 1987, gazed upon him with his words crisp and his eyes on the ground. ” Mr. Gorbachev, knock down this wall.” On the right, Joe Biden, 2023, is seen wandering offstage in Hanoi while” Don’t Stop Believin'” drowns out the solitude.
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Both leaders had old aides in their next terms. However, the managers kept the other hidden while one had control over history.
The evaluation is not just about the person. It is millennial.
The 1980s had a clear definition. In the Soviet Union, America faced a unique physical danger. Whether or not you listened to what the press said was true. There were no videos of the information. Reagan spoke to the audience, but he lived a filterless life. Individuals debated and remembered one another while watching each other.
Fast-forward to the 2020s. There is no longer just one opponent, regardless of the media’s tale or mood. The battleground is electric. The news is based on algorithms. The truth is unique. Staff members managed the videos when Joe Biden stumbled. Condemnation was hampered by systems. Fact-checkers evolved into view referees.
In Reagan’s period, the fact moved more slowly but quickly. It vanishes in real time now.
Not just the period, either. It is based on the age. The question is not whether someone is too old in this new age, where truth may remain buried and leaders may be propped up by method and scripting. It’s whether or not we are also permitted to see.
Following are two congresses compared: one that is present and the other that is pretended to be.
Revisiting the Age Problem
Americans once questioned whether Ronald Reagan was too aged to guide a country after the Cold War. We continue to ask the same questions about Joe Biden for completely different reasons now, forty years after. Reagan delivered a humorous and concise answer. Behind notecards, speechwriters, and whispering assistants, Bindo faced it.
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Not just the period, either. It’s about leadership, leadership, and whether a leader is leading the nation or being led by people we not elected.
Reagan’s Next Name: Rumours but no stumbles
Ronald Reagan, 73, was older than Dwight Eisenhower when he died, when he began his next term. Criticism raised questions, particularly after the Iran-Contra scandal broke in 1986. Reagan nevertheless stood before the people, accepted duty, and stood firm.
His public emotional clarity was unquestioned. He negotiated hands offers, collaborated with a Democrat Congress, and remained unwavering in his determination to face the Soviet Union.
No single claimed Reagan couldn’t do the task, despite media stories suggesting ignorance. And most importantly, he wasn’t surrounded by employees who protected him from the general public.
Reagan delivered his most well-known talk in West Berlin in June 1987, only 17 months before taking office. Powerful and ancient, it was.
His later diagnosis in 1994, which included Alzheimer’s, led some to reevaluate his president, but psychiatrists and officials confirmed there was no sign of the disease while he was in business. No irrational statements. No recommendations were whispered. No ambiguity in the video.
Biden’s word: Managed Decline, Produced Consent.
Joe Biden, age 78, took department in 2021. the senator who took the swearing. Within a month, little, initially, warning symptoms began to appear. statements that go. reports without a conclusion. Confused about fundamental statistics. But unlike Reagan, Biden’s staff didn’t fight the issues; instead, they kept them a secret.
Access was constrained. Discussions that were conducted simultaneously were avoided. Press meetings were uncommon and brief. According to reports, Chief of Staff Ron Klain prevented government individuals from meeting. Anita Dunn, Jill Biden, and after Jeffrey Zients, all became the de facto protectors of British strength.
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Employees apparently joked about “bad days” behind closed doors and devised solutions to provide Biden’s receding memory. During errors, advisers cut him off. His plan was constrained. Often, screeches were abandoned at the end.
Reagan blasted the Soviet Union.
An Easter Bunny wearing a mauve coat redirected Biden.
Compare that to Reagan: Cabinet meetings, media conferences, position meals, summits with Gorbachev. Without being steered, Biden don’t walk a rope range.
The bridge burst quickly after the devastating June 2024 debate. Binden paused, then abruptly withdrew, evidently at risk. Americans were then left with hazy interpretations and scripted silence.
It wasn’t until almost a year later that the facts emerged: His prostate cancers had metastasized to the spine. The examination was definitive. The fraud had also occurred.
Not the question is why he left, though. The inquiry is about how much we have been lying to.
From Watchdogs to Lapdogs in the internet
Reagan was confronted by a media corps that appeared to be doing its job. They constantly parodied him, challenged his plans, and questioned his memory. However, they always guarded his health.
The internet treated Biden like a guarded relic, and Reagan like a leader.
Forbes and Politico published puff pieces about how” sharpened” Biden was “in private,” but the American public saw something else. Wanders on Air Force One. losing his believe process. disregarding even his own Cabinet members ‘ names and dates. He told a crowd to applaud a congressman who had passed away months earlier in 2023.
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The media attacked and didn’t just dismiss it; they also attacked and criticized everyone who noticed. Opponents were labeled as “ageists,” “misinformed,” or “right-wing crime theorists.”
Social media hampered the postings and video that highlighted Biden’s worst times.  ,
Reporters were silenced.
Reagan was SNL. There was repression in Biden.
The Aftermath: Reagan’s Grace vs. Biden’s Fallout
Reagan had a successful and measured last year. He helped lay the groundwork for the quiet conclusion of the Cold War by passing significant trade policy and continuing arms control negotiations. When he took office, he carried it out with integrity and aplomb.
One of the most courteous and touching public statements a former president has ever written, his 1994 farewell letter announcing his Alzheimer’s examination still contains.  ,
No one to responsible. No sway.
Biden’s leave, then? What about the discomfort following the conversation? There was no actual closing, no hit event.  ,
His group scurried. Kamala Harris made a state. Gavin Newsom circlung in a hawklike motion. The Democrat chair shattered. The lights went up as Biden’s administration came to an end, not with a light.
Who Truly Held the Country, and Why?
Reagan’s critics claimed he was also intellectual. However, no one ever made the claim that he wasn’t the one making the decisions. Biden? That is a legitimate query.
Americans pondered, Who’s in charge? for the majority of his president? Is it Emily Biden, or what? Ron Klain? From the dark, Barack Obama?
The American president is not intended to be a play on paper. We lose more than confidence when the artist didn’t give his lines and the text is handed to assistants; we lose democratic control.
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Last Thought: Accountability Is Important, Age Isn’t the Problem.
This article is not intended as an attack on older years. It serves as a reminder about administrative deception.
At age 77, Ronald Reagan stood towering before the rest of the world. Joe Biden was kept hidden from inquiries and led offstage at the same time.  ,
Reagan was in charge. ……
The drama stems from Biden’s drop more than anything else: the involvement that led to its demise: the reporters who covered it up, the sponsors who demanded solitude, and the citizens who were told,” Nothing to see here.
Ronald Reagan remarked in 1984,” I don’t want time to be a part of this plan. I won’t use my enemy’s youth and lack of experience for democratic purposes.”
The audience erupted.
Joe Biden stood frozen in mid-sentence in front of thousands in 2024. And nobody chuckled.
It wasn’t interesting, either.
It spooked me.
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