You might’ve seen the phrase “All power is unitary” being thrown around a lot these days and, though it definitely does ring like a bullshit truism that some intellectual styrofoam at the National Review deploys to pad out his masturbatory column, it’s worth a refresher: Basically what it means is that nothing in government or politics happens in isolation and for any leader a victory or momentum on one policy front begets another in a completely different one. And, more relevant here, it may be even more true on the reverse end. Look no further than the last administration for fucking corrupt assholes Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, neither of whom ended up facing voters again, waited until after the Afghanistan withdrawal shitshow to decide they were no longer team players and they could do whatever they wanted to jam up Biden’s ambitious legislative agenda.

Without going down a rabbit hole as to whether or not those two were bribed (they probably were, let’s be completely honest) the more relevant question is whether or not something similar is what’s happening here with Ron “RonAnon” Johnson. Don’t kid yourself about this miserable cocksucker suddenly going all “resistance,” in fact think of it as being directionally the same as Manchinema 2022: That he’s pulling the whole plan further to the right of what convicted felon President Trump’s already been convinced by Mike Johnson and his House pals is the bill(s) he wants to sign.

Or something like that. Truth be told the whole GOP legislation package storyline’s such a fucking mess and changes from minute to minute that there’s really no point in trying to summarize the situation until something concrete-ish emerges from the maelstrom. Instead it’s more worthwhile to ponder whether this friction that RonAnon is throwing up would still be happening if his Orange Jesus had spent the last few months just sitting on his fat ass, collecting Russian money, ordering the FBI to arrest Hillary Clinton, and so on rather than pissing voters off with the DOGE circlejerk and launching his economic suicide mission with tariffs on remote islands populated by penguins, putting Trump with literally the worst 100-day presidential approval rating in modern history.

Probably not. RonAnon’s a particularly nihilistic and amoral piece of shit in a party full of them and would vote to legalize pederasty if NAMBLA wrote him a big enough check. Instead ULINE sent him one with a Milwaukee Bucks hand towel so here he is apparently making sure his owners’ “small government” needs are taken care of at the potential expense of the glory of the Orange Allah.

The 35 second clip might, six months from now, be the kind of thing you can look back and say “Oh THERE’S a perfect example of where they fucked up and slowed down before everything went to shit in the economy and passing a tax cut for rich people became politically impossible for vulnerable House Republicans,” emphasis on “might.” For now you should still expect them to get something passed, if only so you can be happily surprised if it collapses like the Obamacare repeal.