Thread by @AuronMacintyre

The media has basically laid siege to the Biden presidency, running endless stories about his inevitable resignation

Trump obviously took for granted going in that he would have this level of hostility, but Democrats assume slavish press compliance 🧵/1

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1814317439343112429

The press have been running cover for Biden his entire presidency, which is the only way he could ever even pretend to function, but now journalists are running any and every roomer of disfunction or concession they hear as fact in the hopes of pressuring the old husk out 2/

The press waited a whole day before going back to calling Trump Hitler and wishing death upon him, anyone who thought the regime was going to slow things down or take the obvious off ramp to national unity has not been paying attention 3/

The fervor for defeating Trump will only become more intense but this creates a difficult balancing act for the left

Any idiot can see the disastrous contrast between Trump and Biden now so the need to replace the current president is greatly magnified 4/

But the longer the media try to spend leveraging Biden out the more they damage what little electability he has left if they end up stuck with him

They also reduce the amount of time available to install and support a suitable replacement 5/

Biden is too senile to care about pressure from the press and his family is too desperate for power and privilege to fold which means the normal lines of manipulation for the media aren't available 6/

But the Biden administration must now govern in opposition to the press

Again a Republican assumes this is the case but for the left the press and bureaucracy basically ARE the government

Democrats rely heavily on this dynamic to get anything done 7/

Obviously the press apply pressure whenever a Dem president isn't progressive enough, but when is the last time one had to operate, not just without the media assistance, but indirect opposition? 8/

At some point Biden will break or the media will cut its losses and return full focus to Trump, I'm guessing the latter, but this is a fascinating moment to understand the real forces that govern the United States 9/9