Regarding SL’s tweet about McConnell’s culpability in the continuing danger from Trump, let me say this: truer words were never spoken. And I think that his response to the second impeachment puts lie to the conventional wisdom that he just had to accommodate Trump so he would get his judges. That had some credibility while Trump was…
Regarding SL’s tweet about McConnell’s culpability in the continuing danger from Trump, let me say this: truer words were never spoken. And I think that his response to the second impeachment puts lie to the conventional wisdom that he just had to accommodate Trump so he would get his judges. That had some credibility while Trump was President but had passed its expiration date once the election was over. He wasn’t going to get any of “his” judges while Biden was President. And, anyway, he already had gotten more than any reasonable person had a right to expect. And McConnell has to know that, even if he disagrees with the policies of the Democrats, they aren’t the America-hating pedophiles that the Trumplicants paint them out to be. He had to know that a second Trump term would almost certainly be worse than anything the Dems could cook up. But he also had to know that the GOP would take a serious hit if Trump were convicted. So he had a choice – sacrifice his power for the greater good (getting rid of Trump) or continue to look the other way and just hope that something happens to Trump. I’m not even sure that McConnell really thought that he had a choice. He’s been playing the game of power politics so long he couldn’t have done it any other way.
Mitch's failure to have Trump convicted during his second impeachment trial was a deliberate calculation on his part not to tarnish the Repulican brand prior to the still-pending Senate election in Georgia. It backfired on him as Trump used his unconvicted status to so denigrate the electoral system's validity that many who would have otherwise voted Republican did not cast ballots, thus causing Mitch to lose his Majority Leadership to Shumer.
Regarding SL’s tweet about McConnell’s culpability in the continuing danger from Trump, let me say this: truer words were never spoken. And I think that his response to the second impeachment puts lie to the conventional wisdom that he just had to accommodate Trump so he would get his judges. That had some credibility while Trump was President but had passed its expiration date once the election was over. He wasn’t going to get any of “his” judges while Biden was President. And, anyway, he already had gotten more than any reasonable person had a right to expect. And McConnell has to know that, even if he disagrees with the policies of the Democrats, they aren’t the America-hating pedophiles that the Trumplicants paint them out to be. He had to know that a second Trump term would almost certainly be worse than anything the Dems could cook up. But he also had to know that the GOP would take a serious hit if Trump were convicted. So he had a choice – sacrifice his power for the greater good (getting rid of Trump) or continue to look the other way and just hope that something happens to Trump. I’m not even sure that McConnell really thought that he had a choice. He’s been playing the game of power politics so long he couldn’t have done it any other way.
Mitch's failure to have Trump convicted during his second impeachment trial was a deliberate calculation on his part not to tarnish the Repulican brand prior to the still-pending Senate election in Georgia. It backfired on him as Trump used his unconvicted status to so denigrate the electoral system's validity that many who would have otherwise voted Republican did not cast ballots, thus causing Mitch to lose his Majority Leadership to Shumer.