I would say “truly baffling” until I recall “but her emails.” Times reporters and editors have been saying publicly that this is a huge story, and everyone needs to know the state of the president’s cognitive ability. But they are acting as if it's a natural disaster while largely ignoring the obvious and more threatening cognitive decline of his opponent.
The Times simply doesn’t see it. As with WMDs, they think they are on the right side of the story.
https://www.threads.net/@davmicrot/post/C9QSGTzyZnh