Mitch McConnell gets eaten by MAGA

[godzilla]

i find the GOP civil war absolutely fascinating. MAGA is eating the GOP.

the Tea Party was a real grass roots movement. and it was a movement run by the rural poor. and it happened in red states. i'll never forget laughing at the tv screen watching traditional GOP types attempt to assume the Tea Party. they would regurgitate Tea Party slogans and then conveniently add on traditional GOP "national security", "energy security" globalist, pro business rhetoric.

from the beginning the pro business globalist GOP has been trying to blame the lost american dream on Democrats. on the "woke".

Trump used the Tea Party energy to create MAGA. when MAGA starts hunting "globalists" and "forever wars" then traditional GOP suddenly start denouncing everything they were doing during the Bush years. starts denouncing free trade! all of which they instigated!

Trump is attempting to contain things. but not much. mumbling "drill drill drill" or saying "the country needs to be strong" is his meagre attempt at propping up the military industrial complex and big oil. saying that maybe anheuser busch should "get another chance" is his attempt to appease the powerful business class.

but its failing. MAGA is eating the GOP. evidence of that is whats happening to good old Mitch Mcconnell. yeah, he's never been beholden to Trump and Trumps personality can't take that... but Mitch is the old globalist forever war guard! Kentucky's largest business is defence. and MAGA has eaten him. who will replace him? some peace loving isolationist?

so i'm really curious how Trump manages this. i think as much as pro business love his pro business policies they see that he unable to control MAGA's attacks on traditional GOP "values" (trickle down economics, no end to federal debt if its going into private hands etc). are the business elites going to try to take the GOP back? where is all that giant corporate campaign money going to go?!

Edited February 8, 2024 by godzilla

[Rebound]

The Tea Party was not a grass roots movement. It was created and funded by the mega-billionaire Koch Brothers. 

[Michael Hardner]

23 minutes ago, Rebound said:

The Tea Party was not a grass roots movement. It was created and funded by the mega-billionaire Koch Brothers. 

Another Frankenstein's monster situation.  Once they supported President "I love deficits" Trump he had to tear it up and start again.

[Moonbox]

1 hour ago, godzilla said:

so i'm really curious how Trump manages this.

He won't.  The contradictions inherent in so many of his positions are irrelevant to the screeching donkeys in his base.  They have an air-tight, infallible defense against all of it:

Edited February 8, 2024 by Moonbox