Scott Jennings is a strategist for Mitch McConnell, a conservative commentator on CNN. On Monday, he was on the air discussing how he “backed into the presidency” in 2016 (perhaps that means he lost the popular vote, though I never heard Republicans reference that during his time in office) and added that it has been downhill since then –
“…and from that point forward losing in 2018, losing in 2020, losing in '21, losing in '22, all the legal stuff that has come along — every Republican out there is carrying his bags and those bags are getting heavier all the time. So whether you want to call it losing magic or whatever, it's just getting too heavy to carry Donald Trump's bags.” Just to be clear, as annoyed as Republicans are paying for Trump’s failures, for the rest of us, we are sick of paying for the Republican Party enabling Trump for 6 years, which covers being a today for Putin and the Russians, cozying up to dictators like Xi, Kim, Erdogan and Orban, having America’s world reputation shredded, insisting the pandemic would disappear like a miracle in weeks, ignoring medical advice while pushing bleach and deadly UV light, and maintaining the Big Lie of supposed election fraud, while empowering the Insurrection to try to overthrow the government and against democracy. So, y’know, there is a limit to my tears about how heavy it is carrying Donald Trump’s bags. Further, it’s not just that they’re soooo heavy to carry, but the Republican Party bought those bags. They had a lot of bags to choose from, but those are the ones they thought were the best. And Trump did ask them to carry them, but they begged to be allowed to do so. And argued among one another who was the most qualified to carrying them. Hoping beyond hope that he would endorse them as the best carrier of anyone. If those bags are now heavy with the garbage and excrement he kept stuffing them with, he stuffed them in full view and they helped cram them. If those bags are now heavy even with him out of office but announced to be running against, they had the chance – twice – to convict him at Trump’s two impeachment trials, including the one for the Insurrection, which would have got him and his bags out of politics, but enough of them were still just fine with him and his luggage. But maybe even more notable is that Mr. Jennings only references "Trump's failures" that the GOP is tired of carrying. They're not tired of Trump’s fascist policies and actions they voted for and supported, not tired of the Big Lie so many are still pushing, not tired of the Insurrection effort to overthrow the government – what Jennings says exhausts Republicans is just that Trump failed at them. So, yeah, oh, the exhausting burden of carrying those heavy bags. The heart bleeds. In fact, even when talking about Trump’s failures, Jennings still isn’t quite ready to dump those bags off at the Goodwill store. And makes clear that, well…maybe, no, it really isn’t all the GOP who are sick and tired of carrying those oh-so heavy bags, because there are plenty of Republicans anxious to line up for the honor. "I mean, look,” Jennings says, “he is not without things to build a campaign out of. He's got money, he's got a cadre of advisers fully dependent upon them for their livelihoods. He has people that want Donald Trump. There is a base of people inside the party that would rather have Trump than anybody else. So that's not an insignificant thing to start with." No, not insignificant at all. In fact, very significant. Indeed, a base of people inside the Republican Party. The GOP base. So his “every Republican” is tired carrying Trump’s heavy bags flim-flam is really just razzle-dazzle to redefine the words “every Republican” he wants you to believe. And it’s all just because Trump has been losing. Not because he’s a fascist, white supremacist, pathological liar. Scott Jennings and today’s Republican Party is okay with all that and the heavy bags it brings. As they’ve been for the past six years. If you don't want to carry all that heavy baggage, don't bring it on the trip.
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