WashPost reporters Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker fill us in on what future historians will undoubtedly refer to as “the Revolt of the Bitches”—the painfully reluctant decision of Vice President Mike Pence not to fulfill President Trump’s demand that his Veep piss all over the U.S. Constitution and unilaterally declare Donald Trump effectively President for Life, just like all those other cool guys over in Russia and China. I mean, even tiny little North Korea gets it right, so why can’t we?
Also revolting—in a good way, I mean—was “Donald’s Other Bitch”, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. According to Josh and Ashley, Mitch praised Pence for his cool head during the sacking of the Capitol, but “McConnell told others he was enraged with Trump and planned to never speak to him again.”
“Planned never to speak to him again.” What a burn on the Donald, eh? When Mitch McConnell gets mad, he gets mad mad. The thing is, Mitch, once you sell your soul to the devil, you don’t get it back. Ever.
Afterwords
Also feeling a bit used and abused—Ross Douthat, the “Thinking Man’s Bitch”:
I woke up last Wednesday [the Day of the Rabblement] thinking that the G.O.P. had survived the Trump era, its power reduced but relatively stable, with some faint chance to redeem itself — by carefully shepherding it supporters back toward reality, while integrating elements of populism into the reality-based conservatism that our misgoverned country needs.
The G.O.P. didn’t “survive” the Trump era because Donald Trump is the Republican Party without the mask, as I’ve said before: short version; long version. Mike, Mitch, and Ross, when you look at Donald Trump, you’re looking in a goddamn mirror, and you always will be.
