For example, the report describes a supposedly sinister effort by aides to manage the fallout from Mr. Biden’s disastrous debate with President Trump on June 27, 2024. But the Biden team was just doing its best, albeit for a futile cause, to save the president’s re-election campaign. A similar look at the labors of Ronald Reagan’s aides in the aftermath of his shambling performance in his first debate with Walter Mondale in 1984 would surely reveal a similar, and equally appropriate, picture.