1. quick thread on the media's never-ending desire to claim GOP is "breaking" with Trump.

and the danger that narrative poses; https://pressrun.media/p/mcconnell-plays-the-press-like-a

2. Beltway press played right into McConnell's hand this week, showering him w/ attention suggesting he was standing up to Trump. in fact McConnell has done *nothing* to support impeachment.

3. still, press suggested "floodgates" would soon open and GOPs might rush to vote YES on impeachment.

10 did; that's 5% of caucus.

yet we're *still* seeing "GOP Divided" today headlines.

spoiler: they are not.

4. why the press push for 4 yrs to claim honorable men/women of GOP can't sleep at night re: Trump? bc that allows press to portray GOP as mainstream; as center-left party.

truth: GOP no longer supports free/fair elections. GOP supports insurrection

5. but that is not a story press wants to dwell on. so news outlets cling to fantasy that there's a GOP "reckoning" over Trump.

'McConnell might vote for impeachment!' — gimme a break

6. soon, McConnell's *only* goal will be to deny the new Democratic president any political wins. The idea that a dozen-plus Republican senators will hand deliver an impeachment conviction to Democrats just as Biden settles into the Oval Office is complete fiction.

7. yet the chatter persists, as a way to make GOP seem rational.

it's all the culmination of a four-year media failure dealing w/ Trump and the radicalized GOP

*center-right