On the one hand it's very important to keep those in power accountable and therefore there's merit to criticizing Biden and his administration, even now. The Republicans, however, don't tend to do this. Generally speaking, they circle the wagons and speak with a more unified voice and treat the process more like a team sport. In the past, the combination of the left holding their own to account with the right being more monolithic has created the impression among the more malleable and less fact-based voters that the Democrats are imbeciles and worse at governing. The risk being with the current Biden administration, that the internal criticism along with the luke-warm support from the progressives to begin with, and the distant memory of how bad Trump really was, will result in a Republican President (maybe even Trump) in four years. So, there is a pragmatic case to be made for keeping the criticism to a low hum. But unless you have a truly progressive President (which Biden isn't), a lack of criticism encourages the status-quo which defeats the purpose of having a left-leaning party in charge. It's the status-quo that led to the backlash that fueled populism and helped to get Trump elected.
I don't know what the answer is but it's a problem that all progressives face in the real world that conservatives usually don't have to contend with.
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