Trump *is* the establishment at this point. McConnell got everything he wanted out of him at the expense of the 2016 agenda, then turned on Trump, and now is backing Trump, likely because Trump agreed to do what McConnell wants if reelected 1/ thehill.com/homenews/senat…
It's also telling who is getting framed as TRUE MAGA right now: Kevin McCarthy, Jane Timken, Ivanka Trump, Maria Salazar, etc. Trump isn't a "kingmaker," he's a pawn rubber stamping what he's told to rubber stamp 2/
This matters now because it is easy to forget how sold out Trump is while Biden is president. All of the betrayals get memory hold right now, and the result is the same, rotten, useless GOP rehabilitating its image with the help of Trump because he's agreed to keep selling out 3/
McConnell would not go from trying to destroy Trump post-presidency to endorsing him unless Trump offered to be a good boy and play ball. Yes, Biden sucks--no, the alternative cannot be more LAW & ORDER tweets with the McConnell-Kushner agenda 4/
"McConnell needs Trump’s support, Trump doesn't need McConnell" is a massive cope, and a misunderstanding of what that relationship even entails: McConnell getting what he wants in terms of policy, Trump getting the attention he craves and more grifting on the side 5/
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