FOR EIGHT YEARS progressive activists, democracy-dies-in-darkness media types, and self-important podcasters have righteously bombarded Americans with clarion calls about the danger of Trumpian gaslighting. We’ve certainly done our fair share of that here. Which is why it has been so dismaying over the past few days to see an unending stream of gaslighting from the very same people in the days following President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. The bedwetting about Joe Biden’s debate performance, they insist, is overwrought and unhelpful and everyone should simply move forward as if we are not in the midst of a crisis.