Sen. Mitch McConnell's rather surprising post-acquittal speech struck me as an important moment in the history of our contentious time. If it works as I think it will, maybe there's a decent chance it will prove to be what he's most remembered for when his days in the Senate are done.
Meanwhile, please get over your disappointment from watching Trump escape conviction. It merely confirmed that Trump's icy grip on the fraidy cat Republicans in Congress is still a thing. But we all knew that going into the trial.
And, yes, House Manager Jamie Raskin lifted my hopes, too. He made his case convincingly. Nonetheless, today I'm already over letdown of the impeachment vote results.
What I mostly wanted out of it, anyway, was to see Trump disqualified. And, practically speaking, that isn't really out of reach now. To me, McConnell's galling hypocritical "not guilty" vote mostly said he simply doesn't want to viewed as the one most responsible for splitting the Grand Old Party in half.
Not if he can avoid it. Thus, McConnell plans to bide his time and allow Trump to be that man. Still, I'm glad that McConnell evidently wants to be part of the ad hoc movement to see to it two important things happen:
1. Trump gets plenty of what he deserves, from here on.
2. Trump loses control over most of the GOP.
Which probably means being content to leave him with his following in the crackpot anti-government fringe and the white nationalists elements of the Republican Party. Now I figure McConnell's speech will have a significant impact and play a positive role in launching the aforementioned movement for people of all reasonable political persuasions, even strange bedfellows.
It clearly signaled that from here on it's fine for forward-looking Republicans to attack immoral Trump, to knock him off of his
perch. And so, I expect copies of the video below will become widely viewed. Hopefully,
they will be persuasive.
Yes, it feels strange to view Mitch McConnell in a positive light, but it goes to show you...
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