• prole@beehaw.org
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    The first part of your comment may be true, but it’s leaving out an important caveat: he’s very much directly responsible for the current state of his party, and the rabid base he helped create.

    I think that’s some important context.

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      I’m scarcely excusing his actions on a number of fronts, especially the SCOTUS clusterfuck he engineered. But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

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        But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

        That seems like a distinction without a difference.

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          I think the point they’re trying to make is ‘McConnell might be horrendous shit, but at least he’s not horrendous diarrhea’.

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        He’s literally the leader of the legislative branch of the Republican party. It would be absurd to act like he bears no responsibility for the direction of his party.

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        But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

        “He wanted a Squirtle, not a Blastoise”

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      He’s one of the elements holding back the monster he created. MFer vetoed his own bill after Obama came out in support of it.