I write about it in a home-page article, noting that, in Original Sin, the stories illustrating Biden’s decline

will make any reader of normal character feel sorry for Biden, and wonder why the people around him did not have the decency to tell him it was time to go, if only for his own good. But the authors also show that it was not an accident that Biden had nobody around him to tell him that: His family had built a culture of avoiding unpleasant truths.

They also emphasize that Biden had been counted out and beaten the odds many times before. But that’s an occupational hazard of the presidency: Everyone who gets to the White House has proven himself fantastically lucky. That makes it all the more important for the winner to ensure that someone nearby is willing to puncture his fantasies. Biden, his family, and his team instead sought to punish anyone who made the obvious observations about his decline.