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Extremists are Treating Biden Like He’s Not the Legit President.
Trouble is, they’re on the Left…
When is a President not a President? When seventy percent of Republicans believe that Biden stole the election from Trump, accepting without reservation Trump’s astonishing, brazen lie that he lost only through deliberate and massive voter fraud — which every election official, right or left, affirms did not and could not have happened.
The case against fraud includes interminably drawn-out, expensive, Republican-sponsored freak shows such as the Arizona audit, conceived and run by partisan hacks, that, despite zealously digging for the most arcane details — bamboo paper showing links to China, anyone? — still found zero evidence (in fact, they found more votes for Joe!). That’s one way to delegitimize a democratically-elected leader.
There’s another way: When disgruntled progressives vocally and publicly undermine Biden’s every move, victim-blaming him for the obstruction and game-playing of bad-faith DINO Senator Joe Manchin, and making no effort to disguise their disgust that he’s in the Oval Office instead of — well, guess who?
Yes, it is hard to credit, but the Bernie bros are still man-crushing on old Birkenballs himself, Bernie Sanders.
