Darrell L Johnson

My initial thoughts on former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: My biggest takeaway is sadness. Cancer is a malicious and evil disease. I’m praying for the Biden family and for wise doctors today. 1) if you don’t have the humanity to be as gracious and decent as President Trump, please say nothing. 2) Cancer sucks. It’s pernicious. My father, who underwent more tests and saw more doctors than anyone I know, had undiagnosed cancer for a long time, and died a week after it was discovered. 3) A lot of right wing ghouls are about to discover they have degrees in medicine and forensic pathology. It’s going to be gross. 4) The response to this is going to be bad for the country. Trust in institutions is at historic lows already, and the evidence that Biden’s cognitive decline was covered up mounts daily. This, on top of that, will only expedite the loss of trust, even if there is an honest explanation as to why Biden wasn’t screened for this cancer (as, apparently, some men over 70 aren’t.) 5) One would hope that after COVID, the Biden cognitive decline story, and a host of other controversies, it would be a moment for a party or political leader to make transparency and accountability their crusade. But with the emoluments controversies (planes, crypto) alone we know it won’t be Trump, and with the Dems trying to pretend they didn’t know Biden was in decline and memory-holing their 2020-era policies (trans athletes in sports, DEI, abolish the police), it’s going to be hard for them. Point being, this is tragic on a personal level for the Biden’s and awful on a national level at a moment when we have a crisis of integrity in our leaders. Lord have mercy on us.