Late last month, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced that he would leave his position as Republican leader after the November elections.
McConnell is not consequential for what he accomplished as a legislator or legislative leader — he’s no Robert F. Wagner or Everett Dirksen.
He’s consequential for what he’s done to degrade and diminish American democracy.
McConnell, as the journalist Alec MacGillis noted in “The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell,” was never driven by ideology.
“At some point along the way,” MacGillis wrote, “Mitch McConnell decided that his own longevity in Washington trumped all — that he would even be willing to feed the public’s disillusionment with its elected leaders if it would increase his and his party’s odds of success at the polls.”
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Kentucky, Washington