Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t get off to a good start, but now they have what passes for a good relationship when you’re starting with two such terrible people. They talk regularly and see each other as allies … for now, in the afterglow of passing the Republican tax law and in the continuing glow of packing the courts with extremist judges. If things start going badly, Trump and McConnell’s relationship will crumble, and everyone knows it:
“Continuing to get the victories,” said White House legislative affairs director Marc Short, is “what’s essential to the relationship.”
McConnell did as much to get Trump elected as almost any other American, by blocking the Obama administration from blowing the whistle on Russian election interference, but it's not like Trump would ever acknowledge that or be grateful for it.
McConnell and Trump have almost no shared personality traits beyond a deeply rooted desire to win.
If by “deeply rooted desire to win” you mean “willingness to cheat and lie to win,” then sure! But since that’s a dominant personality trait for both men, they have plenty in common. It’s just that it will turn to bitterness and anger the minute they don’t win or their interests diverge.
These two deserve each other, but (most of) the people of the United States—and the world, for that matter—don't deserve the damage they’re teaming up to inflict.
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