As I noted several weeks ago, I visit Mr. Hewitt's Washington Post scribblings perhaps once a month so as to read Hugh's barometer of what passes these days for GOP establishmentarianism — which is anything just short of storming the Capitol and violently overthrowing the United States government. Hugh is among the party's kittens of ooze who piss acidic urine and cough up hairballs of pussycat subterfuge. No AR-15s for Hugh; merely a pen and loads of self-satisfied preening.
Today he ventures to tell us of Mitch McConnell's unabated promise of laudable Republican stewardship. "No doubt," writes Hugh, "he is already planning how to wield … power for the GOP and the good of the country." After one is through gagging on that second piece of breathtaking pamphleteering, one discovers that Mitch, says Hugh, will lead using "examples of successful Republican governance" such as Florida's science-denying, covid-enhancing, Trump-toadying Gov. Ron DeSantis — and a House "full of GOP promise" such as the stellar dullwittedness of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
I save the most breathtaking of Hewittisms for last. Subsequent to writing that "rule-of-law conservatives owe an enormous debt to McConnell for protecting the Constitution," Hugh, while providing no justification whatever for this unconscionable act, praises McConnell for having "refused to be railroaded by the chattering class into consenting to President Barack Obama’s filling of [a] Supreme Court vacancy." Indeed he cattily avoids citing McConnell's own justification of 2016 being an election year, since he goes on to purr that we should remain agog with admiration at the majority leader's heroic guidance, in the next presidential election year, of Justice Barrett's Supreme Court nomination.
And there you have it — a sickening sample of what passes for upright GOP establishmentarianism. I almost prefer the goons and imbeciles who march around with zip ties and Berettas and speak for millions of honestly delusional Republicans. At least they are straightforward in their sickness.