'If you prioritize career advancement over everything else, it’s possible to convince yourself that McConnell and McCarthy were 'shrewd' or 'cunning.' But were they?' Read mattklewis' latest column:
Forgive me for employing this admittedly weird metaphor. But it’s the closest I can come up with to describe the wayOn rare occasions—when they might have taken him out—they instead chickened out. Thursday’ssheds new light on the failure to exploit a rare moment where Trump was highly vulnerable, politically.
As Burns and Martin detailed, in the days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, “Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Sen. Mitch McConnell told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics.” McCarthy reportedly told members of his leadership team that he would tell Trump that he believed impeachment would pass and that he should resign. Likewise, McConnell thought the end was near.
As a result of their cowardice, populism, hyper-nationalism, and the Big Lie remained the watchwords of the conservative base—rather than the free market-oriented, limited government-advocating, robust foreign policy conservatism that preceded Trump. And the thing is, they reallyAs Burns and Martin noted, “The [GOP] leaders’ swift retreat in January 2021 represented a capitulation at a moment of extraordinary political weakness for Mr.
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