Mitch McConnell has wreaked destruction throughout his reign as Senate minority chief, and regardless that he’s stepping down from that submit, he’s nonetheless exerting his malign affect. In a form of exit interview with Punchbowl Information, the lame duck chief was at his worst.
Listed here are 5 the reason why he’s merely terrible.
1. He believes Supreme Courtroom reform is rather like Jan. 6.
McConnell equated President Joe Biden’s average plan for Supreme Courtroom reform with the mob that attacked the Capitol to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. “That’s what some people were trying to do Jan. 6—to break the system of handing an administration from one to the next,” McConnell instructed Punchbowl. “We can have our arguments, but we ought to not try to break the rules.”
That is the McConnell who referred to as what occurred that day a “violent insurrection.” He stated the “unhinged crowd … tried to disrupt our democracy.” And Biden’s thought that the justices should adjust to ethics guidelines and be topic to time period limits is rather like that.
2. He blasts Trump’s overseas coverage, however nonetheless endorses him.
After Jan. 6, McConnell referred to as Trump a “son of a bitch” and instructed fellow Republicans that the Democrats would maintain him with impeachment. Now he’s endorsing that SOB whereas on the similar time ridiculing Trump’s overseas coverage strategy as “nonsense. … I mean, even the slogans are what they were in the ‘30s—‘America First.’”
3. McConnell is betraying Ukraine.
McConnell is nonetheless going to the Senate ground frequently to speak concerning the significance of serving to Ukraine and defeating Russia. On the similar time he’s backing Trump’s choose of Sen. JD Vance—one of many most vocal pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine senators—to be vice chairman.
“It’s not my job to tell the president who he ought to run,” McConnell stated. “With regard to Sen. Vance … yeah, we have a different point of view.”
He is aware of {that a} Trump/Vance staff would hand Ukraine over to the Russians within the guise of a peace settlement, and but he doesn’t appear to care.
4. He champions flawed and harmful GOP challengers.
McConnell famously declared that the explanation Republicans didn’t take the Senate in 2022 was due to a “candidate quality” downside. Now he’s enthusiastically endorsing a raft of Senate GOP candidates who’re a bunch of misogynistic weirdos.
McConnell instructed Punchbowl that the GOP has “fabulous candidates” in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Nevada.
5. He places successful above governing.
“The way you win the argument is to get more people elected,” McConnell stated. Even when these individuals are Trump’s MAGA darlings.
