Thread by @TheRickWilson

1/ There’s a tremendous amount of smugness right now on the part of Mitch McConnell and his team, including his all-powerful chief strategist and Consigliere Josh Holmes.

2/ They’re boasting widely across Washington how they’ve broken Trump, and ended his ability to select candidates in the 2022 cycle… all while raising low dollar donations from Trump voters by invoking his name over and over and over and over again in their email solicitations.

3/ More importantly, they cracked the will of major corporations like Toyota, who just happen to employ Mitch McConnell‘s former chief of staff as a lobbyist.

4/ In the House, the Republican majority this within reach simply due to redistricting and population shifts, and no, Democrats, you’re not going to litigate your way out of that box in time for the 2022 election.

5/ The cozy world of the Washington DC media ecosystem too-frequently depends on access to people like McCarthy and McConnell and so both-sidesism false equivocation rules the day.

6/ which brings me back to the question of the January 6 attempt to overthrow our election…

Yes, I’m delighted the FBI is arresting the idiots, books, slack-jawed yokels, gibbering fuckwits, conspiracy-addled Karens, Camp Auschwitz fanboys who define today’s GOP…

7/ unless the ringleaders, organizers, planters, plotters, and their direct allies in and out of political office are held to account and brought to justice, it wasn’t a coup: it was a training exercise.