{"id":1602599,"date":"2022-08-12T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1602599"},"modified":"2022-08-12T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:02:33","slug":"gop-needs-to-get-rid-of-mcconnell-not-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-needs-to-get-rid-of-mcconnell-not-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Needs To Get Rid Of McConnell, Not Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-needs-to-get-rid-of-mcconnell-not-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1602599&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Members of the armchair class who spend their days obsessing about their own self-important thoughts have spilled an awful lot of ink about the \u201cfuture of the Republican Party\u201d and what the GOP will look like in a post-Trump world \u2014 the way of the populist simpletons or the way of the norm-guarding establishment. The latest developments at Mar-a-Lago on Monday have some of these folks giddy at the prospect that the party could be purged of the former.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the wake of the nine-hour FBI raid on the home of the former president, two things have never been clearer: There\u2019s nothing \u201cpost-Trump\u201d about our current world, and if the Republican Party \u2014 and the republic itself \u2014 wants to have any future at all, it had better get more interested in fighting to win than in losing more slowly with meaningless PR maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where the GOP\u2019s so-called leaders come in, with none of them illustrating the ideological fork in the road quite as starkly as Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader from Kentucky who has established his establishment self as a stalwart against the Donald Trump wing of his party. And whether McConnell can bring himself to admit it (he can\u2019t), that wing of the party <em>is<\/em> the party.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the raid at Mar-a-Lago, the search warrant for which was signed by a Jeffrey Epstein associate, the Senate\u2019s Republican leader failed to respond for a full day. In fact, he even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/10\/republicans-have-no-idea-what-time-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rebuffed<\/a> reporters\u2019 questions about it at a press conference in his home state. Only after 23 hours had passed did McConnell get around to issuing a neutered, two-sentence statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation of what led to the events of Monday. Attorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, must they? Or what? If there\u2019s anything McConnell <em>can<\/em> do about the deep state\u2019s malfeasance \u2014 which has been thoroughly documented well before Monday\u2019s targeting of the opposition party, one reason <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1557503930795524096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">why we don\u2019t need to wait for the search warrant<\/a> to conclude at least some measure of foul play \u2014 he won\u2019t. And the DOJ and FBI know it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Biden Justice Department is ordering hits on the administration\u2019s most influential political opponent by raiding the home of the former president, potential future nominee, and de facto party leader. And the reason is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a threat. He\u2019s onto the FBI and the DOJ and is unafraid to expose the depths of their corruption, especially after they weaponized the full force of the intelligence community to concoct a false pretext for spying on his campaign, aided and abetted a years-long hoax, smeared his law-abiding supporters as domestic terrorists and intimidated them with threats of retaliation, and helped install a disgraced crackhead\u2019s father in the Oval Office by suppressing evidence of family corruption with false labels of \u201cdisinformation\u201d right before the election. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s what his critics <em>loathe<\/em> about him, but it\u2019s what makes Trump such an effective leader: If the fight is in the mud, that\u2019s where Trump will be with dirty hands \u2014 decorum and establishment be damned.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, McConnell is here a day late to offer a statement. <\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all. McConnell has made a number of other contributions as he seeks to chart the future of the party. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/17\/mitch-mcconnell-has-learned-nothing-and-forgotten-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> boring and unelectable candidates that would do nothing to advance conservative causes. He consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/01\/3-big-blunders-that-show-mitch-mcconnell-is-not-the-legislative-genius-he-thinks-he-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">screws<\/a> over taxpayers by caving on exorbitantly expensive legislation stuffed with pork and Democrat wish-list items. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/27\/mitch-mcconnells-media-tour-to-brag-about-defeating-gop-opponents-of-bidens-foreign-policy-was-remarkably-ill-advised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped<\/a> Democrats send tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine \u2014 something he\u2019s proud of \u2014 with no clear foreign policy objective but plenty of insults calling his detractors fringe isolationists. He <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/14\/mcconnell-his-10-gop-pushovers-and-any-others-who-attack-the-second-amendment-cant-be-in-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Democrats\u2019 anti-gun bill that would gut rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. And he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/08\/mcconnells-disastrous-culture-war-surrender-is-wrong-on-the-year-the-issues-and-the-nature-of-the-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretends<\/a> conservatives are the aggressors in the culture war waged by the radical left.<\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Christopher Bedford <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/15\/mcconnells-impeachment-ploy-was-not-statesmanship-but-an-attack-on-the-base-and-republicans-must-remember-it-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> last February, McConnell \u2014 like the rest of the D.C. swamp and its viciously anti-Trump bureaucrats at the DOJ \u2014 desperately wants to \u201cgo back to the way things were\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cHe wants a return to promising to tackle illegal immigration before winking at corporate America that nothing will change. He wants to raise money on fighting the abortion of our infants while comfortably lifting nary a finger. He wants to shrug and change the subject when asked about men dominating women\u2019s sports and using women\u2019s bathrooms. He wants fewer taxes and more wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But in a world where the left wants to let boys dominate girls on their sports teams, advocates for taxpayer-funded abortion for any reason until the moment of birth, pushes for state-sanctioned racist curricula in government schools, oscillates between demanding police be defunded and law-abiding citizens be disarmed, insists riots are mostly peaceful when their allies initiate them, hosts banana-republic style show trials against political opponents, insists concerns about election security amount to insurrection, and supports a vaccinate-or-be-fired approach to health, there\u2019s no going back to the way things were.<\/p>\n<p>And no world where a demonstrably corrupt law enforcement bureau can attack the former president and current opposition party leader can be considered post-Trump. He\u2019s very much still with us, and now he\u2019s back in the mud.<\/p>\n<p>The future of the party can only have one leader, and we\u2019d best not dispense with our best fighter. McConnell\u2019s got to go.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Griswold is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religion, and the media. 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