Mark McKinnon, longtime political adviser and current co-host of the Showtime political documentary series “The Circus,” joins Political Theater this week to discuss Joe Biden’s approach to the art of the possible, the president’s move from transitional to transformational figure, the “Manch Cam” focus on West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III and how politics has “snorted a bag of methamphetamines.”

Show Notes:

• Biden and Harris hit the road after joint session address to sell agenda
• Beyond policy, Biden’s first address to Congress about preserving democracy
• Fashion statements fizzle out at Biden’s joint address
• Governing in a hurry: The fleeting nature of unified control
• The GOP’s bet against chocolate chip cookies
• We may not be through ‘the worst of this,’ say John Heilemann and Jennifer Palmieri
• Political Theater goes to ‘The Circus’