 And I don't know that they think he can. There's this story in Politico. The headline is, we've all enabled the situation. Dems turn on Biden's inner sanctum post-debate. Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden's small clutch of advisors have built an increasingly protective circle around him, limiting his exposure to the media and outside advice in effort to manage public perceptions of the oldest person to ever hold the office and tightly control his political operation. But inside the White House, Biden's growing limitations were becoming apparent later.