🚨NEW: Jake Tapper on Biden’s decline: “We all saw it happening and we all refused to see it.”
“George Orwell once wrote that, quote, ‘We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue. And then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time. The only check on it is that sooner or later, a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield.’
Now, when George Orwell wrote that, he was talking about World War II. He wrote, quote, ‘The Germans and the Japanese lost the war quite largely because the rulers were unable to see facts which were plain to any dispassionate eye.’ And then he said, and this is one of my favorite quotes ever, ‘To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.’
And that’s the lesson for me: We all saw it happening, and we all refused to see it. Maybe some of you were exceptions, but as a general note, it can be tough in the world we’re in, especially… I mean Orwell didn’t even know… I mean he didn’t have social media to deal with, right? He didn’t have Fox. But to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. And like, sometimes the reality is right there.”