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You might remember Jane Mayer for her detailed profile of the Koch brothers, who were so upset that they started investigating her. This time she's profiling Mitch McConnell. It's odd that McConnell doesn't seem to be at all charismatic, yet still hanging in there after all this time.
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
McConnell and the President are not a natural pair. A former Trump Administration official, who has also worked in the Senate, observed, “It would be hard to find two people less alike in temperament in the political arena.
Trump came to drain the swamp, and now he’s working with the biggest swamp creature of them all.
John David Dyche, a lawyer in Louisville and until recently a conservative columnist, enjoyed unmatched access to McConnell and his papers, and published an admiring biography of him in 2009. In March, though, Dyche posted a Twitter thread that caused a lot of talk in the state’s political circles. He wrote that McConnell “of course realizes that Trump is a hideous human being & utterly unfit to be president,” and that, in standing by Trump anyway, he has shown that he has “no ideology except his own political power.”
“He never had any core principles. He just wants to be something. He doesn’t want to do anything.”
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist specializing in congressional matters at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me that he has known every Senate Majority Leader in the past fifty years, and that McConnell “will go down in history as one of the most significant people in destroying the fundamentals of our constitutional democracy.” He continued, “There isn’t anyone remotely close. There’s nobody as corrupt, in terms of violating the norms of government.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...abler-in-chief
So long as he gets Court Appointments pushed thru, i don't care if he steals candy from children.
There i said it.
It would be interesting to see if you still felt that if he pushed through something that really harmed you in some way.
This is such a well done piece, and it's sad that it looks like none of you read it. Well, I suppose it's easier to be fine with Moscow Mitch if you keep ignorant.
McConnell has shown a serious weakness in our system. Someone who is elected by such a small proportion of the countrey should not have such an outsized power over the U.S. I don't blame Kentucky's constituents for valuing it, but he has shown the limitations of the institution when you assume a certain set of pincipled norms when there is nothing to actusally insure those norms are followed.
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