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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #1E90FF; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF"><b>God, guns, and freedom</b><br /><a href="/wiki/United_States_politics" title="United States politics"><font size="4" color="White"><b>U.S. Politics</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#97DEFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:United_States_politics" title="Category:United States politics"><img alt="Icon politics USA.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/100px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/150px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/200px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Starting arguments over Thanksgiving dinner</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act" title="Employment Non-Discrimination Act">Employment Non-Discrimination Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Security_Rally_of_Montana" title="American Security Rally of Montana">American Security Rally of Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commerce_Clause" title="Commerce Clause">Commerce Clause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican-American_War" title="Mexican-American War">Mexican-American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moe_Tucker" title="Moe Tucker">Moe Tucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:white; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Persons of interest</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Steele" title="Michael Steele">Michael Steele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valarie_Hodges" title="Valarie Hodges">Valarie Hodges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Barr" title="Bob Barr">Bob Barr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush">Jeb Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter" title="Richard Hofstadter">Richard Hofstadter</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Uspolitics" title="Template:Uspolitics">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Uspolitics" title="Template talk:Uspolitics">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Uspolitics&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Darth Vader has arrived.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Don't flatter yourself, Rick Moranis.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>He didn't introduce himself to his students. He went straight to the chalkboard and scribbled. "I am going to teach you the three things you need to build a political party," he said, and backed away to reveal the words: "Money, money, money."</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—John Cheves<sup id="cite_ref-cheves_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cheves-2">[2]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>"Moscow" Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr.</b> (1942–) is the senior U.S. Senator from <a href="/wiki/Fun:Kentucky" title="Fun:Kentucky">KY</a> who spends most of his time as a greasy <a href="/wiki/Prostitute" class="mw-redirect" title="Prostitute">lobbyist</a> for Wells Fargo,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> Big Coal,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">Big Guns</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> and Big Tobacco,<sup id="cite_ref-cheves_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cheves-2">[2]</a></sup> now working for Big Insurance.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> He gives far more precedence to these activities than actually serving the interests of his constituents. </p><p>He is the former Minority Leader for the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party">Republicans</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate">Senate</a> and the longest-serving Senator from <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a> ever. As a child he had a serious case of polio which nearly left him paralyzed, and he still has some lingering mobility problems. He is also a massive tool who will do anything and violate just about any principle for the sake of his party.<sup id="cite_ref-fuller_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fuller-8">[8]</a></sup> What distinguishes him from his GOP colleagues, almost all of whom are similarly unprincipled, is that he is very good at it. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Progressive_Roots"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Progressive Roots</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Rusted_on"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Rusted on</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Pet_issues"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Pet issues</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Moscow_Mitch"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Moscow Mitch</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Rigging_his_own_succession"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Rigging his own succession</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Enabling_fascism.2C_then_bemoaning_the_rise_of_fascism"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Enabling fascism, then bemoaning the rise of fascism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Progressive_Roots">Progressive Roots</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Progressive Roots">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Despite his modern reputation as a conservative obstructionist, when McConnell began his political career in the late 1970s, he was part of the Republican party's <a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican" title="Rockefeller Republican">liberal wing</a>; he supported the Civil Rights movement, worked to block restrictions on abortion, backed collective bargaining rights for public employees, considered himself an environmentalist, and even used "Progressive" as a compliment. Kentucky was still a Democratic stronghold at the time, so this worked to his advantage. </p><p>However, he entered the national sphere at the exact time the Republicans were making a <a href="/wiki/Reaganism" title="Reaganism">rightward shift</a> away from figures like <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a>, and in what became a pattern across his career, McConnell abandoned his previously-held principles in the pursuit of power and power alone. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Rusted_on">Rusted on</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rusted on">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>… becoming a very good politician, in the McConnell sense, requires avoiding all aspects of politics that don't involve campaigning, until you are so electorally aerodynamic that sliding into victory becomes easy and everything else — legislating, compromising — becomes impossible.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Jaime Fuller<sup id="cite_ref-fuller_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fuller-8">[8]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Republican Party owes all of its victories to McConnell. He was the architect of their 2010 sweep and the man who single-highhandedly forced the Republicans to stuff anything and everything "<a href="/wiki/Obama" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama">Obama</a>" at the start of his term. If it wasn't for McConnell, you wouldn't have had the <a href="/wiki/Tea_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Tea Party">Tea Party</a>. He blocked Obama from appointing Merrick Garland to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Court">Supreme Court</a> on the most absurd of pretexts and, instead, allowed Trump to nominate Neil Gorsuch, whom McConnell's Senate approved. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism">His wife</a>, Elaine Chao, was tapped as Transportation Secretary by Trump. As Labor Secretary under <a href="/wiki/W" class="mw-redirect" title="W">Bush II</a>, she was responsible for rolling back key safety protections that cost miners their lives,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> and she has paid fines for illegal campaign contributions in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> She was part and parcel of the cronyism that defined Trump's cabinet. </p><p>The reason Republicans not only tolerate one of the most hated politicians in the nation but make him their de facto leader is that his strategies <i>work</i>. Even as the minority leader (during the early Obama administration), he is so skilled at constitutional hardball that sabotaging a Democratic president with control of Congress seems almost trivial. As majority leader, he can turn a president elected with a massive mandate into a failure and remake the judiciary in his image. This, in turn, makes Democratic voters dangerously apathetic, and depressed turnout carries his party over the edge. We saw this in action in 2010, 2014, and to a lesser extent 2016. McConnell is arguably the most influential senate party leader since <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Pet_issues">Pet issues</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pet issues">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/250px-Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/375px-Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/500px-Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3950" data-file-height="2633" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Mitch_McConnell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>McConnell at CPAC, 2014.</div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>All the things he chooses to present to the people who come there are about his races. And that's all it is. There's almost nothing in those rooms about what he's actually accomplished in all of the decades he’s been in office.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Alec MacGillis on the McConnell archives<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>His biggest achievement to date was tricking Obama into signing the <a href="/wiki/ACA" class="mw-redirect" title="ACA">ACA</a>. Obama then takes all the blame for passing a Republican healthcare plan which will then act as a permanent poison pill for <a href="/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care">single payer</a> in the future. McConnell has also vehemently stated many times that the Republicans' goal was to "deny Obama a <a href="/wiki/2012_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 election">second term</a>." Not only has he failed in that regard, after becoming Majority Leader in 2014, he followed that up by… helping the Obama administration push through the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership" title="Trans-Pacific Partnership">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a>, which Trump later pulled out of solely because… Obama. </p><p>The only two issues that McConnell seems to be passionate about are <a href="/wiki/Flag_Police" title="Flag Police">flag desecration</a> and campaign-finance reform. Contrary to his party, he believes strongly in the right to desecrate the flag, seeing it as protected under the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment" title="First Amendment">First Amendment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> He is also fiercely against <a href="/wiki/Citizens_United" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizens United">campaign finance regulation</a>, feeling that it violates the First Amendment (but also his sources of funding). Indeed, he was against campaign finance reform <i>even when both parties wanted it.</i> The tactics he used against these bills in the early 90s would give him the experience in procedural abuse that would serve him so well during the Obama administration. </p><p>He is considered <a href="/wiki/Not_as_bad_as" title="Not as bad as">ever-so-slightly better</a> on <a href="/wiki/Gay_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay rights">gay rights</a> than <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">the rest of the GOP</a>. This means, of course, that he is OK with the fact that gays exist and might, conceivably, hire one. Moreover, he is less willing to use gay rights as a <a href="/wiki/Wedge_issue" title="Wedge issue">wedge issue</a> in a campaign, unlike the erstwhile junior senator, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bunning" class="extiw" title="wp:Jim Bunning" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Jim Bunning">Jim Bunning</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>. That he is not as anti-gay as the rest of the party has helped fuel extensive speculation that he is, in fact, gay. (Last election saw fliers photo-shopped to make McConnell into a member of the Village People. That the <i><a href="/wiki/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a></i> of Kentucky would resort to gay-bashing tells you everything you need about KY politics. Shit sandwich of a different color.) </p><p>One of the few areas he doesn't completely suck is with regards to vaccination. Unlike most of the party nowadays, which is jumping aboard the antivax train and denying the science, Mitch has always been pro-vaccine, partly because he was a polio survivor. He is also a staunch supporter of <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> in the war against Russia, and has repeatedly called for properly funding the Ukrainian war effort. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Moscow_Mitch">Moscow Mitch</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Moscow Mitch">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The nickname "Moscow Mitch" was first used in 2019 after the House had passed two bills aimed at securing the United States election from interference. McConnell, unfortunately, revealed himself to be yet another Russian asset when he blocked both bills from being voted. The good senator's infamous connections with Russian influence peddlers did not begin there. During the presidential campaign of 2016, McConnell refused to make a bipartisan statement warning the public of Russian attempts at election interference.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska was sanctioned in April 2018 for attempting to meddle in the U.S. elections. McConnell was among the advocates for lifting sanctions on Rusal, a Deripaska-controlled company. Shortly after sanctions were lifted, Deripaska’s company announced a $200,000,000 investment in Kentucky, Mitch's home state. Furthermore, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Blavatnik" class="extiw" title="wp:Len Blavatnik" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Len Blavatnik">Len Blavatnik</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>-born dual national of the US and <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a>, is financially associated with Russian oligarchs, and he donated $3.5 million to political action committees associated with McConnell.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> A Pentagon white paper report, <i>Russian Strategic Intentions</i>, concludes: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Hybrid tactics are most effective when the target state has lost the will or capacity to resist. Conversely, countries that do not have these vulnerabilities face little threat from Russian adventurism short of full-scale war. The most prevalent indicators or “signposts” that an entity is vulnerable to Russian hybrid actions include political and social turmoil, large Russian investments in its key capabilities, and weak security structures.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Rigging_his_own_succession">Rigging his own succession</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rigging his own succession">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>With his wife embroiled in a corruption scandal, McConnell can see the writing on the wall. As a man pushing 80, who has served in the Senate since 1985, he is pushing for the Kentucky legislature to change the law so the governor has to appoint someone from the same party as the retiring incumbent. Currently, Kentucky's governor, a Democrat named Andy Beshear, can appoint a temporary successor to fill an empty Senate seat until the next election. The new law "would strip the governor of that power and put it into the hands of the state GOP." Kentucky has a veto-proof Republican super-majority, which means Governor Beshear, who opposes the law, has no real ability to stop McConnell from rigging his own succession and installing one of his goons to replace him.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> McConnell has a list of his most favored potential successors, Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams (a former McConnell Center scholar), former United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft (whose billionaire coal husband is a major McConnell donor), and Attorney General Daniel Cameron, described as McConnell's protege and the man who let Breonna Taylor's killers roam free.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span id="Enabling_fascism,_then_bemoaning_the_rise_of_fascism"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Enabling_fascism.2C_then_bemoaning_the_rise_of_fascism">Enabling fascism, then bemoaning the rise of fascism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Enabling fascism, then bemoaning the rise of fascism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a></div> <p>As Senate Minority Leader, McConnell actively prevented Trump from being convicted in both of his impeachment trials. In the first trial (2020), he blocked evidence from being presented, and he falsely argued that Trump was not blocking aid to Ukraine but just delaying it.<sup id="cite_ref-rubin_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rubin-20">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup> In the second trial (2021), he was urged by fellow-Republican <a href="/wiki/Liz_Cheney" title="Liz Cheney">Liz Cheney</a> to convict Trump,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup> which would have given cover to even more cowardly Senate Republicans to also vote for conviction.<sup id="cite_ref-rubin_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rubin-20">[20]</a></sup> A conviction in either trial would have prevented Trump from ever running for President again. </p><p>McConnell well-knew the danger that he was putting America in by not supporting the conviction of Trump. In 2024, he told the <i>Financial Times</i>, "We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II. Even the slogan is the same: 'America First.' That was what they said in the '30s."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> McConnell was referring to the <a href="/wiki/Isolationist" class="mw-redirect" title="Isolationist">isolationist</a> and pro-fascist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee" class="extiw" title="wp:America First Committee" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: America First Committee">America First Committee</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> of the 1930s echoing Trump's views in the present. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism">Nepotism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican" title="Rockefeller Republican">Rockefeller Republican</a> — He originally was one (even naming his cat "Rocky"), until the New Right blew in.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Karl Rove</a> — Speaking of four-eyed fascists…</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/here-are-the-best-daily-show-inspired-mcconnelling-parody-videos/#0">McConnelling</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXB8_9SxOE4">Jerma985 gets a call from a very important senator</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bacon Jr., Perry, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101925.html">"GOP Outnumbered in Senate, but McConnell Tries to Ensure It Is Not Outflanked"</a>, <a href="/wiki/WaPo" class="mw-redirect" title="WaPo">WaPo</a> 6.22.09.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cheves-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-cheves_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-cheves_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Cheves, John, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kentucky.com/news/special-reports/article44409951.html">"Senator's pet issue: money and the power it buys"</a>, <i>Lexington Herald Leader</i> (10/15/06 at 3:46 AM).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson, Megan R. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/208281-mcconnell-grows-28-million-richer">"McConnell grows $2.8 million richer"</a>, <i>The Hill</i> 6.4.14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Paul Barrett and Jim Rawley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-23/senator-mitch-mcconnell-and-the-coal-industry-s-last-stand">"Mitch McConnell and the Coal Industry’s Last Stand"</a>, Bloomberg (12/23/15 at 1:45 AM PST).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/nra-spent-1point6-million-lobbying-against-expanded-background-check-laws.html">NRA spent $1.6 million lobbying against background check expansion laws in months leading up to latest mass shootings</a> by Brian Schwartz (Published Mon, Aug 5 2019 4:13 PM EDTUpdated Mon, Aug 5 2019 4:34 PM EDT) <i>CNBC</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=n00003389&cycle=2016">Mitch McConnell - Top 20 Contributors, 2011-2016</a>, Open Secrets.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lm_memsclients.php?id=N00003389">Closeup on Major Client-Lobbyist "Bundles" to Mitch McConnell</a>, pen Secrets.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fuller-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-fuller_8-0">8.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-fuller_8-1">8.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Fuller, Jamie, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/01/the-6-things-we-knew-but-forgot-about-mitch-mcconnell/">"The 6 things we knew — but forgot — about Mitch McConnell"</a>, WaPo 10.1.14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Rubinkam and Chelsea J. Carter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082300343_pf.html">"Senate Plans Hearing on Mine Collapse"</a>, WaPo via Associated Press (8/23/07 at 9:42 PM).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Halsey III, Elizabeth, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/2016/11/29/85d42438-b64b-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html">"Trump picks Elaine L. Chao for transportation secretary"</a> WaPo 11.29.16 .</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Stein, Jeff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vox.com/2017/1/2/14123496/mitch-mcconnell-motives">"Mitch McConnell’s entire career has been about gaining power. What happens now that he has it?"</a>, <i>Vox</i> (1/2/17 at 9:40am EST).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1208509,00.html">Time: Why the Flag-burning Ban Failed</a>, <i>TIME</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference">https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/15/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns">How Putin's proxies helped funnel millions into GOP campaigns</a> by Ruth May (December 15, 2017) <i>The Dallas Morning News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016b-a5a1-d241-adff-fdf908e00001">https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016b-a5a1-d241-adff-fdf908e00001</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theintercept.com/2021/03/04/kentucky-mitch-mcconnell-senator-replace/">"Mitch McConnell Working With Kentucky Legislature on Senate Exit Strategy," Nick Storm, The Intercept</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35741648/mitch-mcconnell-plan-choose-successor-kentucky-bill-228/">"It Appears Mitch McConnell Has Done All the Dirty Work Of Which He's Capable," Charles P. Pierce, Esquire</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/daniel-cameron-lied-about-grand-jury-louisville-police-breonna-taylor.html">"It Sure Looks Like Daniel Cameron Lied About Breonna Taylor’s Killing," Zak Cheney-Rice, Intelligencer</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/the-law-is-not-made-for-breonna-taylor.html">"The Law Is Not Made for Breonna Taylor," Zak Cheney-Rice, Intelligencer</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rubin-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rubin_20-0">20.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rubin_20-1">20.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/15/mitch-mcconnell-trump-america-first/">McConnell has the chutzpah to complain about Trump’s ‘America First’: Mitch McConnell bears great responsibility for the return of Trump and his foreign policy.</a> by Jennifer Rubin (December 15, 2024) <i>The Washington Post</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/remarks/mcconnell-remarks-on-house-democrats-impeachment-of-president-trump-">McConnell Remarks on House Democrats’ Impeachment of President Trump</a> (12.19.19) <i>Mitch McConnell, Republican Leader</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump </i> by Liz Cheney (2022) William Morrow. ISBN 0063040794.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/Zino3">Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’: The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP</a> by Alex Rogers (December 10, 2024) <i>Financial Times</i> (archived from 11 Dec 2024 05:40:36 UTC).</span> </li> </ol></div></div>    </div></div><div class="printfooter">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&oldid=2705660">https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Mitch_McConnell&oldid=2705660</a>"</div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a 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