Congressional Republicans are failing the Trump test

This is a test: After last week, can you find an excuse for congressional Republicans who refuse to admit that President Trump’s capacity to lead the nation is now legitimately in question? I can’t find one. How do the same people who spent years attacking President Biden as mentally infirm cover their eyes to the threat posed by this nearly 80-year-old’s erratic outbursts and possible cognitive decline? Less than two years ago, congressional Republicans scrutinized Biden’s every word, his every stumble, even the mechanics of how he signed documents.  But that chorus of critics on Capitol Hill is now silent as President Trump raises far greater danger with an unsteady hand in control of the nation’s nuclear arsenal.   On Easter Sunday, Trump demonstrated a disturbing lack of stability to all the world by writing to Iranian leaders on social media: “Open the F------ Strait you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” He added: “A whole civilization will die…I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” At that point, partisanship had to recede.  This is no longer a matter of sharing video of Biden’s stumbles on the steps to Air Force One. And there is no comparing Biden’s mumbling to Trump’s loss of control in the middle of a war.   What is happening now is far more serious. We are dealing with a president’s unstable behavior as he has the nation spending a billion dollars a day on a war he started …