Bad Actors in Kabuki Theater

~ We already know that Mitch McConnell doesn’t like Trump. We also know that McConnell is a thoroughly amoral man who cares only for power, and will do whatever he has to do to retain it.

And ol’ Mitch doesn’t say anything by accident. The Senate minority leader’s every move is in the service of his long game dedicated to securing power.

So he makes this speech that gives the casual listener the idea that the Republican leadership is split, and turning on Trump. (This will help with corporate donors.)

“We all were here. We saw what happened,” McConnell said of the attack on the Capitol. “It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next.”

Kabuki theater. No, Republicans aren’t recanting Trump. There’s too much power there, and they’ve already gone all in. So Kevin McCarthy, who desperately wants to be the next Speaker, hugs Trump even more closely.

Let us not get side tracked by McConnell’s denunciation of the Republican National Committee’s stand that the US Capitol insurrection was “legitimate political discourse” . Yes, it can be read as more than an unusually frank rebuke of ex-President Donald Trump, but we’ve seen this play before.

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Compiled from news stories at Crooks and Liars, and CNN

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What’s the Use of Breaking Up    /    Jerry Butler