Joe Biden will never change

During a rare press conference on Wednesday, which lasted well over an hour, President Joe Biden told the press corps that he ‘didn’t believe the polls’, said he’d ‘over-performed’ in his first year, accomplishing more than any president in history in his first year, scolded RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann and blamed the country for somehow misunderstanding what he meant when he labelled his political opponents as allies of Bull Connor, who opposed the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Biden also noted that without his voting legislation, the 2022 and 2024 elections would be rigged and not legitimate.

The presser came at a time when a phenomenon is occurring in Biden-friendly media. Commentators are grappling with the realisation that Joe Biden is not the ‘competent’ (Washington Post) ‘non-divisive’ (Daily Beast) and ‘stable’ (Washington Post, again) magic grandpa capable of uniting a fractured America with a whisper and a hug.

That Joe Biden is the man the Biden campaign sold the pundits on, and it comported with the ideal Joe Biden the pundits had concocted in their collective anti-Trump hivemind.