It’s Worse Than a Gaffe If There’s Method to His Madness

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on April 5, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Commentary

“At what point does Joe Biden’s verbal incontinence start to become a mortal threat to Americans?” asks Gerard Baker in The Wall Street Journal—a purely rhetorical question meant to be understood as signifying that it is at this point—the point of calling for régime change in Russia, as Biden did recently—that he becomes a mortal threat to Americans.