Fighting back against the fascist movement that sprung to life in the fetid sewage of Trump’s candidacy, presidency and insurrection requires using the momentum of its cynicism, insanity and paranoia against it in the closing month of the 2022 midterm election.
The Trump-led MAGA movement controls the Republican Party at a national, state, county and local level. Mitch McConnell is the only national Republican figure who has some measure of autonomy in the Trump-controlled GOP. He maintains some influence at the NRSC, which has lost its long-standing reputation for political competence during the Senator Rick Scott era. The super rich, entitled, and convicted Medicare fraudster-turned-senator wants to get rid of social security, and thought it was a good idea to say so out loud. You can’t fix stupid, as they say.
At any rate, McConnell commands enormous resources that are not dependent on the whims of his orange enemy from Mar-a-Lago. It is important to understand that their immense hatred for one another does nothing to diminish their mutual fidelity to the cause in which both sides of the MAGA line are committed.
What cause is that? Power. Political power at any cost. Contempt is driven by proximity, not ideological opposition, at the highest levels of American politics. The people who truly hate one another are the people in the same party who battle each other for primacy within it. Within an autocratic movement that is constructed around a cult of personality this is doubly true. The MAGA movement is structurally an idiocracy. It rejects the entire concept of meritocracy, competence and truth. It values blind obedience and loyalty to the cause of Trump.