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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (192247)	1/19/2021 5:12:47 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By Terry Maloney Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363029

Certainly poisoning the money well does not make Mitch happy. But neither does alienating Trump voters. The money well can always be cleaned up by passing legislation that makes dark money even murkier and expanding the avenues for it. But Trump voters are a pretty big block. Especially if evangelicals aren't ready to repent their affiliation with Trump. To openly throw Trump under the bus means he is risking a lot. There has to be a reason. If it was merely strategic, doing it indirectly and slowly over time would be the smarter move. He has a couple of years to pull that off. To do it abruptly and mere hours before Trump is supposed to stand down anyway is not very strategic. Maybe he has information that the violent wing of the party is going to do something or some things violently stupid on the 20th. Say, between 8 am, when Trump flees the city and noon when Biden becomes president.