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For having no credibility on the issue, the Republicans seemed to have gotten it right. Maybe you are wrong and they did have credibility but you didn’t listen.
It's a fascinating setup:
R: Biden is senile!
D: How dare you to say such things without any evidence!
R: Here's evidence Biden is senile
D: Bullshit, this is just stutter.
R: Here's more evidence that Biden is senile, also he never had any stutter before
D: Bullshit, he's perfect and anybody can make a mistake. Trump said "covfefe" once!
R: Here's more evidence that Biden is senile beyond anything that anybody who is not senile have experienced
D: Well, maybe he occasionally looks imperfect, but it's just shallow looks, on the substance he's great, the best president ever
R: His every public appearance is a disaster, he can not be effective President.
D: Sure he can, and he will be for the second term too, and anyone who says otherwise is a crazy Qanon!
R: Here's more disasters from Biden
DNC+Obama: Biden, GTFO
Biden: OK, I decided to GTFO
R: Told ya so.
D: You had no credibility on the issue since when you first told us so, we did not agree with you.
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Being eventually right isn't the same as being right. My grandmother had dementia in 2014. If I had continually said she had it beginning in 1995, I would've eventually been right, but only after nearly 20 years of being wrong. Additionally, the claims were always beyond anything that's been demonstrated thus far. While he clearly isn't as sharp as he used to be, nothing he's done publicly has shown any indication he has dementia. His debate performance was bad, but the actual answers he gave weren't anything one wouldn't expect from a garden-variety bad debate performance. The criticism was more on his energy and demeanor than anything substantive. From my experience with the disease, this is not what one would expect from someone with that kind of cognitive decline.
Or, alternatively, Democrats lived in denial for years and dismissed every evidence, until the mountain of evidence got so large it was impossible to ignore anymore, and then they decided this is the moment from which credibility is counted. Very convenient for them, except some people still have memory and can notice that there was plenty of indications and plenty of evidence.
Bigger point is it doesn't matter at which point the medical diagnosis of "dementia" is supported. Maybe he will never be medically diagnosed with it. The point is he was mentally unfit for the rigors of President's job when he was elected, and he only got worse since. And that's exactly what Republicans were saying and Democrats were denying. Pretending like Republicans just got a bit of blind luck because perfectly fit Biden suddenly became unfit in some random freak accident is just bizarre cope by this point. It is absolutely clear Republicans were right from the start and Democrats were lying from the start (those - and there were many - who knew) or were deceived by the former category and willingly accepted the deception despite the evidence in front of their own eyes.
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Yes — in your hypo sure. But if you started mentioning grandma is slipping in 2010 you would’ve been correct. That hypo is closer to reality.
The republicans did talk about lack of energy (he did run a basement campaign after all) but pointed out he kept on making weird gaffes (eg confusing his wife with his sister, losing his train of thought). It got worse over his presidency but there was a pretty clear line.
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