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The Good Fight

Alex Thompson on the Decline of Joe Biden

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Alex Thompson discuss who knew what—and when. Alex Thompson is a national political correspondent for Axios and the co-author, with Jake Tapper, of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.  In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alex Thompson discuss when Biden’s mental state first became concerning, the cover up, and the motivations of Biden’s team and of other members of the Democratic Party during that period. Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ | ⁠Google⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.4

or telling your smartest, most interesting, most driven,

1:20.6

most entrepreneurial, most collegial friends about it.

1:26.8

Music friends about it.

1:35.9

Biden, like a lot of old people, he had good hours and bad hours, good days and bad days.

1:42.1

And, you know, they were clearly managing him in a way to try to make sure when he was in public and big stakes, like the State of the Union,

1:44.5

just a few months before the debate, that he was at his best. But if you see him so often,

1:51.8

like the First Lady did, this is how someone described it to me at the time. If you see him so

1:56.7

regularly, and you think there's even a 10% chance that he is going to act that way on the debate

2:03.3

stage.

2:04.1

If you love him, how do you let him go out on that stage?

2:08.1

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

2:17.1

Do you still remember where you wear on June 27th, 2024, when Joe Biden debated Donald Trump?

2:25.5

I certainly do. I had been worried about Joe Biden's mental security for a number of years.

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