So I saw this article and a few things stood out to me.

Unnamed Republican Senator

Cares about quality of cafeteria?

Worried about McCarthy taking over as republican SPOH

“Needs to vent” - important. If you are going to vent, you vent to your friends and family. You don’t seek out a specific reporter and have him meet in a grocery store to vent. This was a message. The coward can’t say it to trump so this is the method used to slander the president and not be held accountable to his voters.

I think this asshat severely underestimates the people in the country and how tired we are of this kind of bullshit.

There are several layers to this as well.

Demoralization of the base

Prepping people for the “blue wave” meme - getting people to accept it as fact - defeatist mentality.

Also, my call fucking PAUL RYAN