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I’m scarcely excusing his actions on a number of fronts, especially the SCOTUS clusterfuck he engineered. But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

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But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

That seems like a distinction without a difference.

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I think the point they’re trying to make is ‘McConnell might be horrendous shit, but at least he’s not horrendous diarrhea’.

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He’s literally the leader of the legislative branch of the Republican party. It would be absurd to act like he bears no responsibility for the direction of his party.

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But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.

“He wanted a Squirtle, not a Blastoise”

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He doesn’t deserve less culpability just because he underestimated how much evil he’d do

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Underrated comment. Arsonists don’t get clemency for the things they didn’t intend to burn.

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