Play with fire, get burned; Trump is making that clear when it comes to Mitch McConnell [View all]

It would be inaccurate to maintain that former President Donald J. Trump has finally gone off the rails — the Orange Menace was already and has for a long time been a psychological train wreck.

But his most recent fascination, babbled ad infinitum over a series of emails dispensed to his followers, firmly establishes that the man 77 million people thought should be returned to the most powerful and influential position in the world is demented and should be found nowhere other than a convalescent home.

Over the past week, Trump has rabidly attacked his one-time ally, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Louisville, in a series of missives that increasingly show him drowning in the deepest part of the deep end. He has displayed great delight in calling McConnell a “broken old crow” while accusing him of a barrel-load of sins both real and imagined.

Consider this snarling indictment, entered Nov. 17, that attacks McConnell for voting to extend the debt limit and supporting the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that, McConnell has said, would be “a godsend to Kentucky.” It reads in part: