When he's right, he's right
It’s Trump’s party, not McConnell’s. Also: how to make a Michael Jackson movie, and Trevor Noah demands forgiveness for he but not for thee.
I’m not sure why Mediaite is publishing dog-bites-man stories like this:
In a statement released by his Save America PAC, Trump flatly claimed that “Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters.”
This will come as a surprise to many elected Republicans serving in the United States Congress, the vast majority of whom will point to McConnell as being the most influential Republican on Capitol Hill. But the intra-party divide between Trump and McConnell has grown into an irreparable chasm that likely foretells more intra-party fights between pro-Trump surrogates and establishment Republicans.
They still don’t get it, do they? After seven years of Trump, some writers still think the old Republican Party co-exists with the MAGA cult.
Except for a handful of elected officials who haven’t bent the knee, that party is gone. This isn’t a case of a political party expanding the tent. This was a hostile takeover.
Actually, “hostile” is the wrong word. The party base wanted far-right “national conservatism” with a side order of owning teh libs, and they got it. Without GOP voters, Mitch McConnell and the other “establishment” figures are completely powerless.
That’s why, whenever it looks like Republicans might be finally ready to make a clean break - after the Access Hollywood tape, Charlottesville and January 6 - they always come crawling back. Always.
And it’s going to blow up in their faces in the most hilarious way imaginable. Look at all the people who followed Trump and now find themselves under indictment or subpoena. Look at those who opposed him just once, becoming his mortal enemies and now fighting for their jobs against more hardcore challengers.
You know the old saying about feeding the tiger in the hope that it will eat you last? This is the same kind of thing, only instead of a tiger it’s Predator.
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