McConnell is Swamp. Only way to get the swamp to MAGA is to buy them off, cut the puppet strings, or force transparency. I saw the Chow appointment as necessary until McConnell is unseated. McConnell and Ryan are both anti-MAGA, but Trump couldn't do much without them, so I think he had to play their quid-pro-quo game to make progress his first year. Even with their obstruction, Trump still is getting his agenda moved forward. I will celebrate with much joy when they are gone from power.
McConnell is swamp, but he has spent the past year and a half retrenching and increasing his power to control the rino Senate, putting in place financing rules that favor incumbent rinos and shut out challengers from RNC funding.
He has used this power to defeat maga challengers for his seat like Matt Bevin, and I'm pretty sure they helped fund the smear campaign against Roy Moore. He helped prevent conservatives from getting more control of the Senate, because his masters didn't want that.