CHARLIE SYKES, RELAPSING LIBERAL?

Read his recent riposte to the populists reacting to the coot's Thursday night maunder.  "Something about Biden is upsetting them. Could it be…. success?"  It's a pretty modest definition of success to aim at small family gatherings by Independence Day, which was what a lot of people were doing a year ago Independence Day, and what appears to be going on during championship weekend, judging by what I observed in the neighborhood.

It gets better.

Biden was supposed to be President “Houseplant,” but last night he came out and was an honest to God actual, sentient, competent empathetic president. What are you going believe? Your stinking eyes, or a twitter meme?

I didn't know defining sentient down was a thing, but there it is. And empathetic? Faking empathy is second nature to a career politician, it's easier to do that than to fake a burp at a Middle Eastern feast.

In the Relapsing Liberal world of Charlie Sykes, though, if a television talker says the Fourth of July is not the president's to give, that's "performative outrage." Consent of the governed, just a pose?