Just because you put a paper Burger King crown on your head doesn't make you an actual heir to the throne

It's amazing to see the kinds of creatures that crawl out of the woodwork claiming to be Ronald Reagan's heirs. There's a sharp distinction to be made between the Reagan GOP and the atrophied party over which the Bushes presided, and, until Trump came along, the Republican party was clearly under the control of people who had turned Reaganism into an empty vessel, filling it with their own dreary dreams of a mythical elite lording it over a mass of easily-led rubes. McConnell is one of the last of the imposters: "McConnell’s Retirement Marks The End Of The Disastrous Bush Era".