I hold no brief for McCarthy but when an author undertakes to tell us that, "McCarthy exemplifies the big divide between the “America First” MAGA base and Establishment Republicans. This is why an expected Red Wave has the potential to turn into a Red Puddle", he has a duty to his reader to prove it.
Instead the author launches into a diatribe against the Republican National Committee and against transgenders. Again, I hold no brief for the Republican National Committee nor for the transgender movement but what has this got to do with McCarthy? And more importantly what the hell does this have to do with the upcoming 2022 election?
McCarthy might be accused of succumbing to the temptation of all sports teams or athletes who hold a commanding lead which is to play defense and lose momentum and ultimately the game. So it is understandable that McCarthy would preach a more centrist approach to capture (or hold) independents knowing that conservatives have no place else to go in the wake of the Biden/Pelosi carnage. So he plays "safe."
The author does not undertake to prove his case. And if he did to do so by aiming at McCarthy instead of McConnell, I would suggest his aim is wide of the mark. It is McConnell who is in the process of extending the debt, waving the filibuster, saving Biden and the Democrats and exposing the Republican party to an actual schism. Many would say that McConnell, by accommodating and appeasing the Democrats, is pulling their teeth and denying them an issue, government shutdown, with which to save their electoral chances. That at least is an argument although one I do not find to be persuasive.
The next election will turn on the economy primarily and perhaps on crime and, thirdly, Ukraine and Afghanistan-it most assuredly will not turn on the fate of the transgender movement.
I don't like it when the author keeps a hole card up his sleeve and seeks to mislead the reader with a false proposition about his true purpose. If he wants to marshal Republicans to fight transgenderism let him directly persuade us.
