Donald Trump the self-described, stable genius, has never been the picture of mental stability. Let’s face it, from his personal appearance (urine-colored hair, unnatural orange complexion, mouth that resembles a sphincter) to his toxic and incoherent tweets to his rambling press conferences and wild campaign rallies he’s the poster boy for mental dysfunction.

But the pressure of being commander-in-chief during the coronavirus pandemic has cranked up the crazy by a factor of infinity. It’s not the soaring death rate that keeps him up at night, for he rarely expresses any empathy or concern for the victims. It’s the depression-like state of the economy that’s driving him bonkers. Trump realizes that if the economy doesn’t show signs of making a recovery before election day, he won’t win reelection.

From suggesting that COVID-19 patients inject or ingest disinfectants as a miracle cure to claiming that the United States is close to testing 5 million people a day for COVID-19 to blaming everyone except Tinky Winky for the failure of his administration to contain the virus, he’s been acting like the mayor of Crazy Town instead of the president of the greatest country in the world.

Under the best of times Trump has proven to be an ineffectual and feckless leader, and under the existential crisis we’re facing now he has proven to be too mentally unhinged for the challenge. Joe Biden is not the perfect candidate, in fact his mental acuity shows signs of rapid and irreversible decline, but he’s a relatively decent man (emphasis on the relatively) and he would be infinitely better than Trump.