Mitch McConnell has announced that he will leave the Senate in November 2024. He has worked against President Trump all this time and, as revealed in his new book The Price of Power, what he thought of the MAGA movement in general. As I read all this news, I saw a campaign ad for a local issue that Republican Sherrif Jones is involved in with Democrat Kathy Wyenandt over Issue 12 because they think it looks cute to show bipartisan support for an issue for the greater good, and this is the kind of politics ultimately that Mitch McConnell was involved in during his long term in the Senate. There is a fine line between cooperative partnerships with people who are not politically like you and being a grotesque sell-out. When McConnell said in his new book that MAGA was entirely wrong for the Republican party, he has a different view of what that party is, and he is leaving before he has to deal with Trump as president once again. Mitch McConnell, like many politicians who get into that business for a long time, is not driven by ideological purity but rather as part of their business. And when money gets involved, intellectual parameters fly out the window. In the case of McConnell, a large part of his income has been wrapped around the family shipping business with China, so globalism is a very attractive business climate. He might speak Kentucky and talk to voters on meat and potato issues. But politics is their career, so they don’t have levity for big and personal ideas. So they become just another corrupt politician nobody trusts and turn the office they hold into part of the problem. Not a solution.
Many people have wanted a change from this system where they truly get a representative government. I am certainly one of those people and have a long history of voting for people who are more ideological than practical. And often, it takes money to have independence, such as Ross Perot always was, and President Trump is now. When you don’t have to make a living off politics, you can afford to be more of a representative than someone who has to cultivate a culture toward voters that benefits your income. Again, locally, there are hoards of scandalous characters who work in the legal profession and are only into politics to get legal work done for politicians who need such alliances. So it’s understandable that a long-term senator like Mitch McConnell would be jealous of someone like President Trump who is in politics for completely different reasons. Trump wants to make things better, whereas McConnell wants to align politics with his need to be in business, the Chinese shipping business that his father-in-law is involved in. When you look around at the kind of senators and even house members who make a large part of their income from government, it’s no wonder we have such a mess. The amount of insider trading that enriches these people is bewildering. But that has changed because people are sick of it, and Mitch McConnell has long worn out his welcome. For the last decade, more and more politicians have been getting into the business for the right reasons rather than just being another leech of government enterprise. The Senate will be unrecognizable to Mitch McConnell after this next election. With new senators like Kerri Lake and Bernie Moreno, the old guard is finding an unwelcome home there, and it’s just a matter of time before they are all pushed out.
Of course, in his new book, McConnell called Trump a sleazeball and said he was stupid and that he’s a narcissist. People who don’t like other people always say things like that. Enemies called me all those things before most people had breakfast today. But why do people hate others, and how much is it our task to be liked? From the local issue I discussed between Sherrif Jones and Kathy Wyenandt, I can say they measure political capital based on how many people like them. And people often only like other people if there is something that one can do for the other, such as making them rich. And so it is all too tempting to use the power of government to make people like you so that you can use that same power to make other people rich. So this game of who likes who and for what reasons becomes the gateway to corruption. But Mitch has often thought of himself as a master of that game and that he defined the rules of how the game was played. Then, along comes Trump, who has a whole different perspective. He doesn’t care if people like him, and he’s already wealthy, so he doesn’t need government power to make him that way. So, what can you do to control such a person? Control is why people like Mitch McConnell are in politics; if you can control the world’s economic conditions through the power of government, then you can make people like you and want to do what you say for your approval because there is ultimately money in it for them.
Mitch McConnell can never be forgiven for endorsing election fraud in 2020 when he had the power to stop it. But he didn’t because he wanted Trump to fail, so they all conspired to make Trump look bad because they wanted him out of office. It happens all the time. Again, speaking personally, it happens to me way too often, usually before anybody has breakfast in the morning. You can never let other people define who or what you are. People’s opinions are a cutthroat endeavor, and when they are involved, people like Mitch McConnell will seek to take advantage of things for their benefit. But they do hate people like Trump, who are independent and able to function from ideology. And that lack of control over people like Trump is what people like Mitch McConnell hate most. So when McConnell says that the MAGA movement is wrong for the Republican party, what he means, its bad in the way that people like him measures value. Not as a representative of the people but a mechanism for gaining wealth from the marketplace with government power. When a crime was committed with massive election fraud in 2020, Mitch was happy to turn his head away and allow it to continue. Because he personally hated Trump. He did not love the Republic for which our government stands. He worked against it, to subvert it from threats that people like President Trump represent by their very nature. And now, with MAGA, there have been people like J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno, along with others who are changing what success means in the Senate. People like Sherrod Brown are being removed from office, and new MAGA patriots are moving in. So Mitch McConnell wrote a tell-all book that was timed to be one last hit as a Never Trumper against Trump before he left office and is disappearing without a whimper. Nobody cares because nobody ever really liked Mitch McConnell. They only wanted what he could do for them, using the power of government to sell to those throwing money around. He also made a disgrace of the Senate, which voters have been changing over the last several decades. And now that Trump is back, Mitch is leaving because the game is up. And the only path of survival for him is to jump off the boat before it sinks forever.
Rich Hoffman
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