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Devastating @JaneMayerNYer takedown of Mitch McConnell--How McConnell became Trump's Enabler-in-Chief even though McConnell detests Trump, having called him "nuts" & said he "can't stand him" and likened Trump to the villainous demagogue Roy Moore. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief
John David Dyche, a conservative columnist in Louisville, 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.”
Mine safety engineer Spadaro said Mitch suppressed a report into Massey's release of 300million gallons of coal waste into a pond.“Massey gave a lot of money to McConnell over the years. He took the money & protected the coal industry. He’s the most corrupt politician in the US”
McConnell appears to have lost the political support of his 3 daughters. The youngest, Porter, is a progressive activist & campaign director of Take On Wall Street, a coalition of labor unions & nonprofits which battles the “predatory economic power” of “banks & billionaires”
In the 1970s McConnell taught a college course where he wrote on the blackboard the 3 things he felt were necessary for success in politics—Money. Money. Money
“McConnell loves money & abhors any controls on it,” said Fred Wertheimer.“Money is the central theme of his career"
“McConnell loves money & abhors any controls on it,” said Fred Wertheimer.“Money is the central theme of his career"
Political scientist @NormOrnstein said McConnell “will go down in history as one of the most significant people in destroying the fundamentals of our constitutional democracy. There isn’t anyone remotely close. There’s nobody as corrupt in terms of violating the norms of govment”
Robert Caro: In ways McConnell & LBJ are very similar. They both ran the Senate with great deftness. But they couldn’t be more diametrically opposite. Johnson, for all his faults, used the Senate's rules to turn into a force for social justice. McConnell has used them to block it
