Mitch McConnell hits the panic button as Republican civil war erupts
At this point Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell only really cares about one thing: trying to regain majority control in the 2022 midterms. The problem for him is that his Republican Party’s ongoing allegiance to Trump’s ghost, and its unwillingness to kick out embarrassing lunatics like Marjorie Taylor Greene, are in danger of handing the Democrats a win in 2022.
Even though McConnell understands that Trump is finished and Trumpism is a dead end, clueless House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is clinging as tightly to Trump and Trumpism as ever.
So it’s not surprising that McConnell is now publicly throwing his weight behind McCarthy’s biggest House Republican rival, Liz Cheney, while also condemning Marjorie Taylor Greene. McConnell went so far as to say this about Greene today: “Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country.”
This isn’t surprising. As Palmer Report periodically likes to point out, a savvy villain like Mitch McConnell doesn’t ever think in terms of the right or wrong thing. He only ever looks at it in terms of what’s personally best for him. He (correctly) sees McCarthy and Greene destroying the Republican Party’s viability in 2022, and so he’s hitting the panic button by attacking Greene and endorsing McCarthy’s rival. We now have our civil war – but it’s within the Republican Party.
