Donald Trump has decided to oust Mitch McConnell. It won’t go well for either of them.
After a month of on-and-off feuding in public and in private, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are about to become enemies again – and this time it’s going to get even uglier than ever. We know this because Trump’s team is already revealing that it plans to blame McConnell for the failure of the Graham-Cassidy bill in the Senate, and the impending GOP primary loss by candidate Luther Strange. This won’t go well for McConnell or Trump.
Word has leaked out to the Daily Beast that Trump and his team are planning to scapegoat McConnell for everything that’s going wrong in the Republican Party this week (link). Trump will be seeking McConnell’s ouster. It’s anyone’s guess as to whether or not Trump, who lacks political savvy and has virtually no remaining political muscle, can pull it off. But considering the nature of these two snakes, it’s difficult to imagine that they’ll both be able to keep their jobs.
We all watched Mitch McConnell spend the past several years viciously sabotaging President Obama, despite not having much source material to work with. Now McConnell is about to find himself in a war with Donald Trump, who has proven himself rather politically inept, and whose entire life has been one long scandal. If Trump tries to go for the jugular, we’ll see McConnell turn vicious against a vulnerable Trump, on a level not often seen in modern American politics. But there’s an even bigger loser here.
With a Republican President and a Republican Senate Majority Leader preparing to try to destroy each other by pinning the blame on each other for their party’s failures, the clear loser is the GOP itself. It sets up an untenable situation for the Republican Party just as the early stages of the 2018 midterm races are set to get underway. It’s now difficult to imagine the party still having both these leaders in place by the time the midterms get serious.
