Read on Twitter
1/ The reality is that when Boehner and McConnell joined the Democrats in 2010, to thwart the impact of the tea party, they broke trust with the base.
2/ Then in 2014, after the base rallied to two consecutive establishment Presidential candidates that threw the elections to Obama, we still turned out to hand Ryan the House and Mitch the Senate and they again betrayed us by immediately capitulating to DACA.
3/ In 2016 the base no longer viewed the Republican establishment as representing their interests. Every admonition to reject Trump was ignored because we no longer trusted our political leaders.
4/ And how did they handle this rebuke from the base? They immediately sided with the Democrats false Russia collusion narrative and then used a brain dead McCain to accomplish their ultimate betrayal on repeal and replace.
5/ What was the rallying cry of the base as they backed Trump in 2016? BUILD THE WALL! But Republicans who controlled the House and the Senate rejected every attempt to fund the wall.
6/ It was only after Democrats controlled the House in 2018 that Trump single handedly executed the maneuver to fund and build the wall.
7/ Then in 2020 the Republican Party sat back and watched as every rule was changed to facilitate an election like no other in our history. Who was screaming about it? McConnell? McDaniel? McCarthy? No. It was Trump as the media complex attacked him and the party did nothing.
8/ So why would they think we would back them? They are abusers telling their victims it won’t happen again. Except we have moved out and are no longer answering their calls. They’re angry. Bitter. Resentful. Seemingly prepared to kill us off if they can’t have us.
9/ But we are liberated. Empowered. And we have an advocate encouraging us.
Which only makes them more angry.
Alas nothing they do will work.
We have had enough.
Which only makes them more angry.
Alas nothing they do will work.
We have had enough.
10/ I’m not so deluded to think anything I say matters to @LeaderMcConnell. I’ll just say I called this reality, it’s implications and Trump’s likely victory early in 2015.
Mitch, the more you lash out at Trump, the more we are driven into his arms.
You can’t win this one.
Mitch, the more you lash out at Trump, the more we are driven into his arms.
You can’t win this one.
11/ We will emerge stronger. More resolute. Because we have realized how self destructive we were. We allowed the abuse for far too long.
So now we rebuild.
And as Trump says encouragingly, the best is yet to come. /end
So now we rebuild.
And as Trump says encouragingly, the best is yet to come. /end
