Gary Sargent on The Plum Line notes the Republican strategy for a Biden Administration involves inducing an extended recession by under-funding an economic rescue package now:
Indeed, as Eric Levitz points out, if Republicans can scuttle a robust package now, that would hand Biden a “deepening recession.” If Republicans hold the Senate and can block big stimulus measures at that point, Levitz continues, “Biden’s presidency would be over before it starts.”
And so, when McConnell chortled with glee at this week’s debate in Kentucky about the failure to pass more aid at a desperate national moment, it telegraphed what’s coming. And we’ve already lived through what happened when Republicans, led by McConnell, tried to cripple the recovery from a previous economic calamity that a Democratic president inherited from a Republican one.
But, if the Democrats in Kentucky are bold, they can take this information and e-mail it to all Kentucky residents. It’ll say,
“McConnell is working to undermine President Trump by not meeting President Trump’s demands for an appropriately sized economic rescue package. Do you approve of McConnell betraying President Trump?”
It’s worth a shot, as challenger Amy McGrath is not thumping McConnell, and in fact in many polls she’s behind.
This is one of the swirls that comes from embracing an outsider as President. He’s a narcissist that will embrace anything that’ll further his ambitions, and damn the Party.
But McConnell is an extremist as well, putting citizens at risk simply for Party advantage. I hope citizens of Kentucky get the message and give him the boot.
