You know, the coverage of this book, a lot of just focused on a few very high profile,

particular incidents, like the meeting with George Clooney at the fundraiser where Biden

supposedly didn't recognize him. Or particular, you know, examples of Biden, like, after a

grueling few days of travel. And then, you know, in the press, that can be disputed. You know,

people don't go on the record about it or they, in some cases, say, that's not how I remember it now.

So you can kind of dispute any one particular incident. Right. But in my view, just the relentless

detail after detail, situation after situation, person after person. You know, the cumulative

effect is to make it undoubtedly clear that not only should Biden not have run in 2024,

he should not have been president for probably the second half of his term, at least. And another

extremely striking aspect of this book is the reason this happened, many reasons,

but the chief one is Biden's narcissism and coming to believe the own mythology he created

around his family.

And it became, you know, the world against the Bidens. Right, which was

already his mythology about themselves. Like, they were always counted out and they always came back,

and they always did it on the strength of their grit and the kind of deep bonds that they have with

each other. Yes. But there's also, you know, the narrative Biden is this decent man who's endured a lot,

you know, mourner in chief. And I actually don't think that's the case. He's pathologically

narcissistic. And it was his buying the mythology and his sense of his own importance

that led to the dire situation we're facing now. This has kind of been my argument about

him that I think the mourner in chief mythology and the pathological narcissistic megalomaniac

are actually completely related because what it is is that there's two ways to respond to the

experience of vulnerability.

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