And that’s the real story here: when did Fetterman become able to understand spoken speech again? When did he become able to formulate coherent responses? To be sure, he said little about the impeachment beyond “It’s devastating” and “Don’t do it,” but even in that, he sounded more in command of his faculties than he ever did during the 2022 campaign or in the Senate at the beginning of the year.

Is this writer seriously unaware that people tend to recover from strokes, often completely?