WELCOME TO A PREVIEW OF YOUR PRESIDENCY, JOE BIDEN

President Trump and his crew think the whistleblower story is now working to his advantage:

Meanwhile, Trump told the travel pool earlier today he was considering making them public https://t.co/rz2YzrxvXi

— Anita Kumar (@anitakumar01) September 22, 2019

The president, per people close to him, is enjoying all this as it plays out. https://t.co/9QqkWGhyYt

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 22, 2019

Whistleblower story, like Kavanaugh story, is blowing up. Now no mention of money or quid pro quo. So appropriate conduct. Now we must look at Biden Family pattern of corruption of selling his public offices for 5 decades. Pattern of corruption enabled by Swamp.

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) September 22, 2019

They're doing their best to make this about Biden. Here's the lead story at FoxNews.com right now:

California Rep. Devin Nunes predicted on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that Joe Biden's campaign is likely coming to an end -- all because of newly resurfaced reports about his possible misconduct in Ukraine....

Nunes, speaking to anchor Maria Bartiromo, said a whistleblower's allegation that President Trump had acted inappropriately during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will ultimately backfire, and shine a light on Biden's own possible misconduct....

"So now that these have been resurrected, I don’t know who came up with the scheme -- maybe this whistleblower really is not a partisan. We want to hear from that whistleblower, but it sure looks like the scheme has backfired. And, like I said, it looks like this is the end of Biden’s campaign. I really do... his lead is basically down to zero."

Here's the Trump campaign tweeting a video that intercuts an angry Biden response to a reporter's question about the story with Biden's boast in an earlier public appearance of having pressured Ukraine to remove prosecutor Victor Shokin (Team Trump assumes its fan base won't know that the prosecutor was globally regarded as corrupt):

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— Team Trump (@TeamTrump) September 22, 2019

What's ironic about all this is that Biden -- the only major Democratic presidential candidate who thinks he'll be able to work easily with Republicans if he's elected -- is the first candidate to be treated the way Republicans will treat any Democrat who manages to be elected president. The current thuggishness has the stylistic hallmarks of Trump, but notice that much of the party is closing ranks around Trump and trying to turn this into a smear on Biden. The GOP's propaganda arm, Fox News, is all in on the smear.

Joe, this is what your presidency will be like starting the moment you're sworn in. Every other top Democrat understands what's coming if they win. None of them expect to deal with the opposition party in good faith. They know that the fever won't break after the campaign is over.

You've gotten the first real taste of what a Democratic presidency will be like starting in 2021, if it happens. Any second thoughts about your plans to pal around with Mitch McConnell and the rest of the gang?