While extrapolating from a single person is a mug’s game, the erroneous belief that Biden is too elderly to be president does seem to be widespread, if not so much anymore among the chattering class (boldface mine):

And Wallace Welch, 21, a college student and barber in Chattanooga, said he’s inclined to support Trump because he feels like the economy overall was better three years ago. While Biden might have more specific programs aimed at young Black men like him, Welch said he felt safer and expects car prices and inflation would be lower under Trump.

“He might not say the best things all the time but he’s an actual businessman. And Biden is just old,” Welch said. “I don’t really want a world run by old people. Well, there’s nothing wrong with an older person ‒ just an incoherent older person.”

We’ll ignore the policy issues (lower inflation would mean his wages and job prospects would be worse) because the second part of that conversation is more important.

The lack of effective response for months by the Biden political team when his mental acuity was being attacked is political malpractice of the highest order. If nothing else, Biden’s surrogates needed to be out there attacking Trump’s lack of fitness for office–which is overwhelming. Instead, they went dark and let Trump et alia define Biden.

We need better professional Democrats because a bunch of assholes with blogs and social media feeds can’t reverse this sort of ineptitude.