Trump against McConnell — for the Republican Party's alleged soul?

© 2021 Peter Free

 

03 February 2021

 

 

An amusing battle between two nihilists?

 

Niall Staange published the following in The Hill this morning:

 

 

It's Trump vs. McConnell in battle for GOP's soul.

 

In the battle for the future of the Republican Party, there are two competing power centers: one is former President Trump, the other Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell . . . .

 

McConnell clearly has come to see Trump — and Trumpism — as a liability for his party in the future.

 

[Yet:]

 

“You can’t overestimate how much disdain Republican voters have for Republican leadership in Washington,” said one former Trump campaign adviser, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.

 

Trump and McConnell “are competing power centers inside the Beltway GOP, but outside of D.C. it’s clearly Trump’s party and it’s really not even close.”

 

© 2021 Niall Staange, The Memo: It's Trump vs. McConnell in battle for GOP's soul, The Hill (03 February 2021)

 

 

I'm outside the Beltway

 

Staange's informant is correct. It ain't even close out here.

 

McConnell is a bureaucratically gifted creature of the Corporatist State.

 

And Trump is kind'a like the randomly insane butterfly, who floats in through the barred prison window — to create some tiny — but entertaining — disruptions of the Establishment's ordinarily iron-fisted and in-control face.

 

 

Even I would take . . .

 

. . . "what you see, you get" Trump — as against:

 

 

closet-conniving

 

Machiavelli-sucking

 

nihilist-forever

 

eternally obstructionist

 

(all day long)

 

human being-pretending

 

Evil TurtleMan.

 

 

No disrespect intended, Senator McConnell

 

You are genius-good at manifesting Sheer Perversity's spectrum of nasty-minded procedural and propaganda tricks.

 

 

Because the Ship of Corporatist State . . .

 

. . . is inevitably going to take us all down with it, we may as well amuse ourselves in the process.

 

"Moron" Blowhard Trump has done this exceptionally well.

 

Indeed, Democrats already miss him for the camouflage that he provided them — regarding their own Party of Fake Opposition credentials.

 

 

A more transparently ineffectual . . .

 

. . . but splendidly rambunctious villain is hard to find.

 

Donald Trump even managed to make a mob tour of the Capitol look — to millions of drama queen fools — like an existentially dangerous "insurrection".

 

And who can calculate the immense boost that Toddler Don's whitish vacuity brought Black Lives Matter's civil rights effort?

 

Kentucky Mitch could not have accomplished any of this "progress" — even on Mitch's best life-long day.

 

 

The moral? — All hail Toddling Donny!

 

It is admittedly painful to examine ourselves in the mirror.

 

Which is why we don't.

 

Ever.

 

So, let the parade of the United States' rot-concealing Worst Leader People continue.

 

It's all harmless fun, right?