For a bury-the-needle conservative like McConnell, he'd rather have Trump in office than Biden any day of the week and twice on Sunday - even though he'd rather have any Republican other than Trump.

Which is inconsistent with what he said 4 years ago after the Capitol was besieged. At the minimum, he strongly implied Trump was responsible, and -as I recall- delivered a monotone, but scorching, speech about it. And now he's saying "better an insurrectionist than a Democrat"? That amounts to treason in my book.

It's not that Trump did nothing. In doing nothing, he made things on several fronts far worse (e.g. Russia, China, South China Sea, trade relations, NATO, tariffs that hurt farmers, etc). Plus he appointed a bunch of crooks to positions of power, many of whom he later had to pardon when they got caught. How can any thinking person regard that as "better", unless they are a mindless drone of their party?

I would rather have McConnell than Menendez, for example, because Menendez is openly corrupt, and does not have the best interest of this country at heart. Same as Trump. I may not agree with McConnell about much, but I'm pretty sure he wants what he thinks is best for the country.

As a rather shaky analogy, if my wife is going to leave me for another man, I'd rather it be a good man than a wife-beater. Trump is a wife beater (at least metaphorically for this illustration).