Mitch McConnell, former Senate majority leader and full-time political villain, did an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader that was discussed in The Guardian.
It was interesting. Not good interesting, but insightfully interesting.
Trump is president in ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says: Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s
This part was particularly interesting, in the not-in-a-good-way way.
"But while decrying the lack of US preparedness to confront authoritarian regimes abroad, the 83-year-old McConnell – a senator since 1985 and leader of Republicans in the chamber for a record 18 years until he stood down earlier this year, then announced his upcoming retirement – did not discuss the Trump administration’s own moves towards authoritarianism.
He also glossed over his own responsibility for handing Trump so much power. As majority leader, McConnell maneuvered to deny Barack Obama a rightful supreme court pick, and rushed to give Trump another in the final weeks of his first term in 2020. It made McConnell the architect of the current ultraconservative 6-3 majority on a panel that critics say has been overly loyal to Trump, not least last year’s astonishing ruling giving him immunity for criminal acts."
I seem to remember that McConnell said that one of the nefarious (my word) acts that he was most proud of was using all of his villainous machinations (my description) to seat that conservative bloc of justices, who are rapidly unraveling our democratic norms. Great job, Mitch. Glad to see you're gone.
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