In Undermining Trump, GOP Senators Rejected the Politics of Prudence
These politicians showed that even when they vote the “right way,†they can still be a huge net drag on the party by legitimizing the Democrats' relentless and hostile narrative.
By Jeremy Carl
February 18, 2021
The remarkable broadside by Donald Trump against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) earlier this week was something to behold, given that it was sent from unquestionably the most important current Republican leader to the party’s arguably most prominent and powerful face in Congress.
“Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again,†wrote Trump, in something that in an earlier, happier age, might have been the subject of a tweetstorm that would have dominated several news cycles.
Upon reading Trump’s characteristic counterpunch, one immediately has a few thoughts: First, more starkly than ever before, Trump has set up a contest between the populist-nationalist and the establishment wings of the party, one that will be necessary to decisively resolve if the party is ever to move forward. And second, one wonders how different the political history of the last four years might have looked had Trump taken this approach upon winning the 2016 election?
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