To a degree the account, with its attention-grabbing and bellicose offerings, has become a reflection of the current age of personality politics and hyperpartisanship. Its critics find it bewildering, the stuff of trolls.

“It’s like they handed the keys over to some nihilist teenage shitposters who wanted to see how fast they could get reporters to discount everything they say,” a Biden campaign alum told West Wing Playbook. “They think crowing about intentionally lying makes them tough when it really just worsens the feedback loop.”

But for all the eyebrows they raise, the individuals behind @RNCResearch believe they’ve had the impact they set out for, and that Biden — through act and action — has helped them do it. The account takes credit for advancing an image of Biden as the modern day Mr. Magoo, the elderly bumbling cartoon character.