McConnell on Trump: The Chicken Calls the Pumpkin Orange
Mitch McConnell broke America. I blame him for everything that has gone wrong in this country since 2008. I understand that he is only the vessel for the fears of white men, but he chose to be that vessel, and he should rot in hell for the choice. There is a new reason to loathe the man, and I’ll admit I cannot resist piling on.
I refer to this from AP on October 17:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month.
McConnell made the remarks in private as part of a series of personal oral histories that he made available to Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press. Tackett’s book, “The Price of Power,” draws from almost three decades of McConnell’s recorded diaries and from years of interviews with the normally reticent Kentucky Republican.
The animosity between Trump and McConnell is well known — Trump once called McConnell “ a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.” But McConnell’s private comments are by far his most brutal assessment of the…