Convicting Trump was McConnell’s last chance to rid his GOP party of Trump and McConnell blew it! McConnell tried to build wall between Trump and the GOP party; but instead he handed the GOP party to: Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Don Jr., Proud Boys, and all the other domestic terrorists who waged deadly insurrection on America.
Now the GOP party officially supports Trump’s terrorist agenda.
McConnell blew it!
Convicting Trump was the easiest vote any GOP Senator would have ever cast in their life. Trump sent terrorists to overthrow the 2021 electoral process and kill anyone who got in their way; hell yes convict him!
Ok, GOP, so ya’ don’t give a damn about protecting America because you care more about your own power than protecting the country; well, convicting Trump was still the easiest vote any GOP Senator would have ever cast in their life.
Trump sent his terrorists to kill every one of them, including GOP; hell yes convict him! Trump sent terrorists to kill his own GOP Vice President, a guy who GOP Senators have been friends with for over 30 years; hell yes convict him! Trump sent terrorists to kill cops in order to hunt down every member Congress to kill them; hell yes convict him!
Trump’s terrorist agenda is for him to stay in power and he does not give one damn how many GOP members of Congress need to be killed in the process; hell yes convict him!
No matter what excuses anyone uses and no matter which party you’re in, there was absolutely nothing hard about convicting Trump.
‘But I might lose in a primary’ — you almost lost your life, convict him!
‘But Trump’s terrorists will be mad at me & will send me death threats’ — Trump’s terrorist just tried to kill you, convict him!
Convicting Trump would have neutered Trump, his terrorists, and his insane QQ-QQ-QQ members of Congress.
Not convicting Trump gave Trump and every one of his QQs much more power over the GOP party. Domestic terrorism will be an even bigger threat the U.S. national security and Trump’s terrorists will be an even bigger threat to the lives of every member Congress.
McConnell blew it and he blew it because he tried to change the GOP political equation that the GOP party have successfully used for decades to ‘control’ their cult-base.
McConnell cares about two things (hint: not America)
- his own power (which means maintaining GOP majority),
- money (unlimited donations to GOP party)
The formula for the ‘old’ GOP “political calculations” was:
GOP Majority Power = Republicans + x
Republicans
- where variable x = vilification of you-name-it
keyword: vilification
Vilification:
Notice vilification is key to the equation. Vilification has always been essential in the GOP political calculation because that is what they used to build and create their base, their QQ-cult-base.
For decades the GOP leaders like Ronald Reagan, Mitch McConnell, etc., built their GOP voting base by training their supporters to be in a perpetual state of anger. They did this by demonizing and vilifying: minorities, unions, worker’s rights, teachers, education, poor people, lower-middle class people etc., and GOP scandals.
Perpetual State of Anger:
Their perpetual state of anger caused them to become ‘self-brainwashed’’ to such a degree they reject facts, truth, and empathy. They refuse to listen to any news or political opinion that have not first been vetted through a lens that will feed their anger.
The vilification, perpetual state of anger, part of the equation is method used by cults.
Since at least the 1960s, the GOP politicians have fed their base anger, hatred, and lies; which created a cult-minded base. Feeding the GOP base anger and hate It’s what talking-heads call: “Republicans tossing red meat to their base. “
GOP scandals:
As the equation above shows, “Republican” is in the numerator and denominator. The equation is formulated that was so all the Republican politicians have shared leadership of the cult, not just ‘one’ leader. So when a GOP scandal erupted, the GOP politicians would ‘condemn’ the scandal but not the wrong-doer. As a result of ‘condemning the scandal but not the wrong-doer’ all the GOP politicians were able to maintain shared leadership over their base-cult.
Take for example, Iran-Contra. GOP politicians condemned it, but at the same time protected the wrong-doers; praised and said good things about the wrong-doers. That allowed the GOP cult-base to do the same: condemn the action but not the GOP criminals involved.
In fact, in Iran-Contra, the GOP equation yielded the GOP cult-base to elect and/or elevate the GOP criminals involved: GHW Bush, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan. As you can see, the old GOP equation yields the GOP politicians (even the criminals) maintaining shared leadership over their cult.
McConnell tried to change the GOP equation:
McConnell no longer wanted Trump to share leadership over their cult so on Saturday, McConnell tried to change the equation to: ‘condemn the act and condemn the wrong-doer but don’t punish the wrong-doer.’
Notice, McConnell added: ‘and condemn the wrong-doer.’
McConnell must have thought he could change the equation to yield a result that would rid the GOP of Trump. But McConnell was wrong because Trump had already changed the equation. Trump’s equation puts “Trump” in the numerator and denominator, not “Republican”
Trump’s new GOP equation is:
Trump Power over cult-base = Trump + x
Trump
- where variable x = vilification of you-name-it
Remember, in the past GOP kept their cult-base in line by periodically feeding them hate, lies, and propaganda. In the past, the GOP politicians did not feed their cult daily, or even monthly. Usually, the GOP politicians would feed their cult-base during primary season and then, after the election, they’d put their GOP base back in the attic until the next election day.
Of course that pissed off their cult-base because their base wanted to be fed more than just a few times every few years. But that’s the way it was, so the GOP base had to deal with it.
Then came Fox News (1990s) and then came Trump (2008-09). In the 1990’s the GOP cult-base looked to Fox News to feed them hate, lies, and propaganda which kept them in that perpetual state of anger they crave. Fox News kept the GOP cult-base in that ‘self-brainwashed’’ state to such a degree they reject facts, truth, and empathy. They refuse to listen to any news or political opinion that have not first been vetted through a lens of Fox News. The GOP party were happy to let Fox feed their cult-base so they went along with all the lies told on Fox.
Around 2008-09 Trump started the vilification of President Obama with his “birther” lies. Since McConnell wanted to make Obama a one-term president, McConnell was happy to passively use Trump’s birther lies, to keep the GOP base in a perpetual state of anger.
From 2009-2020 the GOP politicians kept using the old GOP equation where they’d condemn Trump’s actions of this or that, but not condemn Trump. By 2012 the GOP politicians had given Trump so much power that Mitt Romney had to publicly kiss Trump’s ring in order to get the GOP base to support him in the 2012 election. GOP politicians did those things as a way to maintain shared leadership over their base-cult.
Between 2015-2020 Trump was feeding the GOP cult-base almost daily dose of lies, propaganda, and anger. Trump turned the old GOP cult-base into the QQ-QQ-QQ Trump cult-base.
The new QQ-QQ-QQ Trump cult-base are still self-brainwashed and still reject facts, truth and empathy, but now they refuse to listen to any Republican’s opinion that has not first been vetted by Trump. They only listen to Trump, no one but Trump.
Trump radicalized his cult so much so that they now support Trump’s terrorist agenda.
So on Saturday, when the GOP Senate cast their “approval” vote, Trump cult-base heard
‘We, in the GOP party, approve of Trump inciting a deadly Insurrection so he can maintain power’ and ‘We approve of Trump sending his domestic terrorists to kill us all & kill his own Vice President for Trump to maintain power,’ and ‘All Hail Trump’
That’s what they heard.
McConnell’s failed new GOP calculations ended up doing three things:
- It empowered Trump, the Proud Boys, Matt Gaetz, Don Jr. Marjorie Greene and all the other QQ-QQ-QQ domestic terrorists in GOP base.
- It pissed off Trump who is now threatening to punish McConnell & boot Mitch from ‘leadership’. (And since Trump is pissed off at McConnell, so is the QQ-GOP cult-base.)
- It officially marked the GOP party of supporting Trump’s terrorist agenda.
Basically, McConnell’s ‘new’ GOP equation had the exact opposite result of what McConnell wanted.
Oh sure, conviction would have pissed off Trump’s QQ-GOP base cult, but their voices would have been muted, Trump would have been muted, and Trump’s domestic terrorists would have been muted.
But because McConnell blew it, Lindsey Graham already came out and said “Look, I’m sorry what happened on January 6th … but realize without Trump we’ll never get back in the majority.’
Translation: ‘Look I’m sorry Trump tried to kill us all, but we need Trump & his terrorists to stay in power….”
There ya’ go. The GOP officially support Trump’s terrorist agenda..
McConnell not only put U.S. national security at risk by allowing Trump’s domestic terrorists to rise, McConnell also destroyed what was left of his own political party and gave his party to Trump & to Trump’s terrorists.
No, I do not feel sorry for McConnell or the GOP party. McConnell and the entire GOP party laid down with Trump’s terrorist agenda and now they’re covered in it.
But the next time you hear Lindsey Graham say ‘we’ve got to win back the House and Senate to get rid of Biden’s radical socialist agenda’ — remember: the GOP voted in “approval” of and support Trump’s radical terrorist agenda.