A statesman is someone who puts the long term health of his country before any personal or partisan interest. That’s exactly what Mitch McConnell isn’t. In 2009-2010, he made it clear that regaining power was more important than digging the country out of the Great Recession. In 2016, he pulled his Merrick Garland stunt. Today, he appears to be determined to violate his own “rule” for Garland and force a vote on Trump’s nominee before the next president takes office.
McConnell and Trump are very different people, but they appear to agree on two points: power is the only thing that matters; and rules are to be made up and broken purely in your short term best interests.
What can the Democrats do? What should they do? That will be the subject of my next post.