With McConnell’s endorsement of Trump, it gives the green light to other remaining skeptical Republicans — and the deep-pocketed donors who fuel campaigns — to fall in line despite any reservations they may have about a return to the Trump era.
After the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol, McConnell issued a grave rebuke of Trump’s behavior, blaming the defeated president for spreading “wild” claims of a stolen election.
While McConnell refused to convict Trump in the Senate trial on House impeachment charges of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol, which could have left him ineligible to serve again as president, he warned that Trump was not immune from civil or criminal prosecution once he left the White House.
During the transition, AOC got a lot of right-wing attention for saying all the supportive Trump tweets and comments should be backed up so these asshats couldn’t pretend they never supported the man. She was quickly proved right as a lot of them started distancing from Trump, and now we see the additional reversal as they try to weasel their way back into his camp.
The problem with AOC’s strategy is that it only works when Trump is more unpopular than her team’s candidate.
But also, yes. Chuds will come up with literally any excuse to wild out on AOC.
There’s a certain depth to the right-wing media rabbit hole, such that you simply won’t hear any kind of dissent or opposition. You’re not allowed in the Members Only Club if we catch you talking shit about the Club Boss.
So yeah, she can have a stack of receipts a mile high. But nobody’s going to be reading them on OAN or Rumble or during the The Dan Bongino Show.
The United States Republican Party is always there to remind me that at least 1/3 of humans are still no better than scared, shit flinging apes. Maybe this is our species’s next genetic bottleneck.