"Your day of reckoning is coming!" former White House aide Steve Bannon warned the Republican establishment during an election-eve rally for insurgent GOP senate candidate Roy Moore.
Bannon railed against Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Monday night for dumping tens of millions of dollars in attack ads on the Alabama race in order to prop up his chosen candidate, Luther Strange, who ultimately suffered a 9-point shellacking from Moore.
"Mitch McConnell and the permanent political class is the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in this country," Bannon told the crowd. They had thrown money at the race hand over fist, Bannon said, "cuz they think you're a pack of morons, they think you're nothing but rubes."
Heading into the race, McConnell did seem to be under the impression that his double-standard dealings as Senate Leader could be wallpapered over at the ballot box with some lavish advertising.
"Roy Moore is just in it for himself," charged one attack ad sponsored by McConnell's super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund. The ad accused of Moore of "getting over a million dollars from a charity he ran" and concluded, "You can't trust Roy Moore."
But on Election Day, Alabama voters responded to the charges with a collective, Who gives a f#ck? After all, McConnell spent two years looking the other way as Donald Trump—a man who plundered his own charity for personal gain—won the Republican nomination and then became president. All the while, McConnell, much like his counterpart in the House, Paul Ryan, never took a decisive stand against Trump's moral depravity.
Why McConnell ever thought he stood a chance of taming the beast Trump has unleashed after decades of grooming the GOP base to feast on raw emotion over facts is a mystery. No one has exemplified the motto that rules are for other people better than McConnell, who for a solid year blocked President Obama from fulfilling his Constitutional duty to appoint a Supreme Court justice then changed the Senate rules to pave the way for Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch.
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