Mitch McConnell's real legacy: *Letting Trump skate for insurrection *Possible Trump 2.0 in WH *Broken Senate *Corrupt SCOTUS *GOP as party of minority rule *Politics drowning in dark money On today's pod, the great Norm Ornstein goes deep on all of this. Listen👇 newrepublic.com/article/1793... - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 377 days ago

Mitch McConnell's real legacy:

*Letting Trump skate for insurrection
*Possible Trump 2.0 in WH
*Broken Senate
*Corrupt SCOTUS
*GOP as party of minority rule
*Politics drowning in dark money

On today's pod, the great Norm Ornstein goes deep on all of this.

Listen👇
https://newrepublic.com/article/179374/mitch-mcconnell-trump-maga-ate-alive

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kindler.bsky.social•377 days ago

He is also a huge reason why the US has taken decades to act meaningfully on climate change because he is so deeply in bed with Big Coal. Millions will suffer around the world over the next few decades for this inaction.

drjamesjteeth.bsky.social•377 days ago

McConnell’s goal has been a Republican super majority on SCOTUS and the Federal Court system packed with Republicans. He got what he wanted. He didn’t bumble it. His only bumble might be the fascist dictator he is getting isn’t a genteel Southern aristocrat, but a crass mook from New York City.

nclud.bsky.social•377 days ago

“I didn’t want a fascist dictator. Just permanent minority rule embedded deeply within every branch of government”

polipolly.bsky.social•377 days ago

Thanks for the link. I’m on a big drive tomorrow and will be giving it a listen.

gregsargent.bsky.social•377 days ago

thank you!

buddhaferret.bsky.social•377 days ago

Yep

https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2024/02/uncommitted-satans-sermons-five.html

jeremyj.bsky.social•377 days ago

The American von Papen.

newamauta.bsky.social•377 days ago

Mitch McConell's legacy is also rejecting reparations for Black folks even though his own wealth comes from his family owning several slaves

numb.comfortab.ly•377 days ago

Biden: "I am proud to call Mitch McConnell my friend".

polipolly.bsky.social•377 days ago

As much as it pains me….The two have been friends for over 50 years. Albeit, on opposing sides of the aisle. They have disagreed on policy…to heated argument.
It’s a tough one, but I get it.
They are old school. Mitch is an idiot, but he hung in there. And President Biden has recognized it.

kayzy.bsky.social•377 days ago

John McCain and Mitch McConnell fought bitterly over the McCain-Feingold bill, though they claimed to be friends.

polipolly.bsky.social•376 days ago

They fake it until they make it.
Don’t we all to a degree😂?

numb.comfortab.ly•377 days ago

McConnell literally cried when McCain killed the bill to repeal Obamacare.

kayzy.bsky.social•377 days ago

That makes me happy!

chemotaxis.bsky.social•377 days ago

lol

nclud.bsky.social•377 days ago

“My friend” is more or less old school decorum and workplace etiquette. It is a workplace after all and even in opposition they’re coworkers. Someday an aging millennial will refer to someone across the aisle as a frenemy

polipolly.bsky.social•376 days ago

Probably 😂

nocoursewalks.bsky.social•377 days ago

Additionally, "my good friend from " is a traditional means of referring to a fellow senator while making a speech in the Senate.

numb.comfortab.ly•377 days ago

Still there's something off in the phrase "my friend packed the court with christofascist judges, and now abortion is criminal".

polipolly.bsky.social•376 days ago

Well, yes… shaking my head in agreement.
It’s personally got me baffled.

michaelccozens.bsky.social•377 days ago

Thanks for admitting you see your personal social convenience as more important than the humanity of the vulnerable.

You and Biden are MLK's "white moderates", whom he correctly named a greater threat to civil rights than the outspoken bigots.

polipolly.bsky.social•376 days ago

What?
Are you for real?
Humans connect, even from opposing sides.
Did you just land on earth or have you just had your head up your own delusional backside to spew that UTTER crap at me?
Sit down dude.
Honestly, chill. Trump is the threat. McConnell is gone.
AND DON’T attack those in your own team.

bojangles.bsky.social•377 days ago

He absolutely, 100% wanted all those things to happen. Nothing "ate him alive," he used MAGA to his own benefit.

pacinowig.bsky.social•377 days ago

Someone called him the "gravedigger of American democracy" and that seems correct

martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social•377 days ago

#MoscowMitchPutinsBitch?

coffeeaddict.bsky.social•377 days ago

Delivered GOP victories until the moment he became an apostate on ONE issue and pushed aside

smintheus.bsky.social•376 days ago

I'd have said that the foundation of Moscow Mitch's legacy is the principle that written and unwritten laws, rules and norms may be manipulated, ignored, and made a travesty whenever a little partisan advantage may be had. With that principle, there can be no enduring constitutional government.

swonder.bsky.social•374 days ago

naveman.bsky.social•377 days ago

Don’t forgot blocking Obama’s Garland nomination

beegeesmith.bsky.social•377 days ago

Don’t forget the imbalanced SCOTUS! Gorsuch v Garland.

angstymcgee.bsky.social•377 days ago

But, Greg, have you thought about how he can end on a high note? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/28/mitch-mcconnell-legacy-ukraine-courts/

unlabeledelder.bsky.social•377 days ago

the Fascist States of America won't put Mitch McConnell's face on their currency, but they should!

jimadamsgeo.bsky.social•377 days ago

As someone else put it "the midwife of fascism".

drdpc.bsky.social•377 days ago

The worst thing is we look at this list and mourn the ruin he's caused and think he'd slink off in shame, but he looks at it with pride and says "I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams!"

4seasonstl.bsky.social•377 days ago

Facts.

adamauntiem.bsky.social•377 days ago

We will remember McConnell as one of the most corrupt monsters in history while the one percent remember him for what he truly was: a tool.

gregsargent.bsky.social•377 days ago

Mitch McConnell also:

*Threatened Obama to keep 2016 Russian election interference secret

*Wouldn't admit Biden won for weeks to keep MAGA energized for Georgia runoff

*Made corrupt bargain with Trump/MAGA to get judges/tax cuts for rich

Listen:
https://newrepublic.com/article/179374/mitch-mcconnell-trump-maga-ate-alive

polipolly.bsky.social•377 days ago

He really was and still is a total incompetent prick.
So the question remains…
3 x Maga John’s are now all vying for top spot. Which absolute unhinged fascist nutter is Mitch going to endorse as his replacement?

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