"After President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, the punditocracy has gone both apeshit and feral."
Apeshit & feral sound right to me.
Though I wouldn't say the punditocracy has gone that way since Biden's debate performance.
I've seen these traits for quite awhile in the self-anointed media elites who imagine they mediate reality to the rest of us. Media have played a huge role to normalize Trump.
"Don’t let the media tell you what to believe. The media has lined up in lockstep to hound Joe Biden out of his candidacy. Over the last seven years, we have seen with our own eyes that the media is biased, cowardly, greedy, short-sighted, and inaccurate in its coverage of Trump and his opponents. They have not magically put all those faults behind them and suddenly become paragons of truth and justice."