The Left wields enormous cultural power in this country. It’s gotten so used to constructing its echo chambers, mobilizing its media assets and its activist base to destroy anyone who stands in its way that it’s baffled when someone like Senator Manchin laughs it off.

What do you do to a man who isn’t intimidated by Saturday Night Live attacks, media hit pieces, and Twitter ratios?

A portion of the lefty media is still laboring to crank out Manchin hit pieces even if they’re conspiratorial rants thick with the stench of desperation.

David Corn / Mother Jones: SCOOP: Manchin Tells Associates He’s Considering Leaving the Democratic Party and Has an Exit Plan  

Has Corn checked this one out with Chris Steele? Maybe the Russians have a pee tape on Manchin too?

It still sounds less unhinged than… 

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Report: Sinema Bent on Destroying Biden Presidency to Keep Taxes on the Wealthy Low This sounds extremely bad.  

This thing Jonathan made up does sound really bad.

Anyway once you’ve accused a man of destroying the world and all life on earth, what more can you do?

Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet – Rolling Stone

How Joe Manchin and Republicans Could Destroy the World – Gizmodo

But apparently accusing Manchin of leaving the Democrat Party is even worse than destroying the world. Priorities, you know.

In Joe Biden’s absence, Manchin is focusing as POTUS simply by leveraging his power and refusing to be budged. It’s a classic negotiating strategy which shouldn’t have been so bewildering except that the Left has infected the party so badly that it no longer understands how to negotiate, only how to destroy.