I disagree. I think he was at his weakest on 1/7. Everyone was distancing. Even Hannity, Graham, Mitch, McCarthy…they were all treating him radioactively. They truly thought he went too far and they read the opportunistic winds that night as throwing him under the bus being the best outcome. They very temporarily underestimated just what a group of garbage their base really was. They quickly found out. Watch the video of Graham getting harassed in the terminal at Reagan just a few days later by the maga mongoloids. They quickly pivoted and Mitch played the Dems again on delaying the conviction proceedings.
Now, time has passed and they have shifted to mitigating and diminishing the severity of what occurred. If they would have called it tourists, little dust ups, etc on 1/7, they would have been roasted. Now it is part of the coordinated whitewashing. Look at the more deplorable shits like the sack and eurohorn trying to reframe the conversation cleverly…sarcastically calling it Pearl Harbor and similar tactics to imply overreaction to something inconsequential while the more useful idiot types like rex and icono say it was no big deal because they were too stupid to be effective or successful. Watch the Klepper video where people were pretending like they weren’t even familiar with what happened. No one would have tried to pull that bullshit on 1/7. On 1/7, he was truly vulnerable. Mitch could have executed Trump’s political life that day by fast tracking the conviction process. He was too chickenshit which is surprising honestly. He got everything he wanted out of him. Now he’s a nuisance to him.
These hearings have demonstrated a level of corruption and outright criminal behavior that in any other era, it would be so humiliating that a party would do everything they can to destroy Trump and rebrand away from him. Hell, the hearings shouldn’t even be necessary…just playing the tape of trump’s conversation with the republican Secretary of State from Georgia over and over should be enough for 90% of this country to say holy shit, this is literally, not figuratively, literally the definition of autocratic, corrupt behavior that spits in the face of everything we pretend to hold sacred and special about our nation and the notion of democracy. When I think of that call, I think of the whole meme from the end of “a time to kill”…”close your eyes, hear these words recorded pressuring an election official to commit fraud and conjure votes that would directly undermine the electoral outcome…now, imagine she’s white/it’s Obama saying them.” If a single other person in the world had been recorded saying what trump said in that conversation, it would have been their permanent demise and likely a criminal conviction.
Instead, he raised tens of millions of dollars from people who couldn’t afford it off it for his personal use. These fucking flag waving dipshits who claim to love freedom and all the other pithy cliches…wanted a monarch and were willing to financially contribute to the effort, go to jail and realize financial ruin, and even be shot to death in pursuit breaking through a window in the capitol to make it happen with not even the slightest sense of the irony.
And Mitch figured that out. As crass and shallow as it may sound, it really is the monologue from the Dark Knight where Alfred describes the mafia turning to the Joker…a man they didn’t really understand. Obama becoming president, homosexual rights to marry, all the culture war losses…but the country club republicans did not understand what they were unleashing…a man and supporters where reason, decency, integrity, all that trite shit…it was a flaw.
These hearings are enlightening and well presented to anyone paying attention…but in terms of trying to shame Trump or the maga mongoloids, it is like trying to shame a sociopathic murderer for being mean to other people.