"One thing I learned during my time in Obama’s White House: Never underestimate the cravenness of Mitch McConnell. If all you care about is cutting taxes for the rich and repealing Obamacare in secret, a Watergate-size distraction is a feature rather than a bug. As long as Trump’s base (and Fox News allies) punish Republicans who push for impeachment, I just don’t see McConnell and his party cutting the president loose. Until he becomes toxic in the brightest-red states and districts, they’ll be more than happy to use the chaos as cover while they ram through as much regressive policy as possible. —David Litt, former Obama speechwriter
Worked for Bobo, bug boy...
They were basically managing scandal with scandal there under Obama.
By this I mean that the administration actually seemed to help there to be a constant state of scandal whereby their own supporters would become entirely immune to any hint of Democrat wrong doing, as indeed many are, having been so thoroughly calloused over amid constant hullabaloo.
So no scandal was really too bad, relative to the last, to disabuse libs all at once and this let the ramp things up so that their abuses could increase.
Humans, you see, can rationalize a proverbial heating frying pan and get grilled alive where frogs, lacking the ability to excuse and accommodate, will sensibly jump out and survive.