Left media has SOME influence in the wider media ecosystem, but Biden fails to inspire enthusiasm because he’s a fossil who was kind of a joke figure in the last administration and now visibly struggles to get through even pre-prepared lines and speeches
Imagine left media completely ceased to exist tomorrow. What, exactly, is the case for enthusiasm for Biden? Who is watching him speak - the thrice-failed candidate who looks about three steps out of the grave - and thinking “I can’t wait for this person’s bold leadership”
Some of these people have so internalized the idea that politics is about bad-faith expressions of tribal loyalty that they seem to have bizarrely rejected the notion that political talent or appeal even exists at all - that perhaps some people just aren’t good political leaders
One lesson of the past three years is that if you start lying and warping reality in order to promote your political faction, you will literally never stop lying. Tell the truth https://twitter.com/squaresense/status/1248235983272914946?s=21
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