THE FINAL LEGACY OF AMERICA'S GREATEST CONFEDERATE TRAITOR

Today saw the final surrender of the last power center in the Republican Party that had not bent its knee to and kissed the ring of Donald Trump, when America’s greatest Confederate, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell announced that he would step down from his position as leader of the Senate Confederates this coming November.

House Chaos Agent Matt Gaetz celebrated the news by recounting the recent shake-ups playing across the Confederate Party, crowing that McConnell, Ronna Romney McDaniel and Kevin McCarthy all got “86’d.” He posted on his Xitter (that’s pronounced “shitter”) account, “We’ve now 86’d: McCarthy, McDaniel, McConnell. Better days are ahead for the Republican Party.” (That the Confederacy controls the Republican Party, which was founded in opposition to the Confederacy’s treason, is the ultimate irony.)

Well, yes, if your goal is the destruction of the oldest democratic constitutional Republic since Rome - the United States - then “better days” may be ahead.

Gaetz mocked all three, “McCarthy, McConnell, McDaniel McFailure.”

We are now left to examine the legacy of Mitch McConnell, the Senator most likely to be recorded in U.S. history 100 years from now - assuming histories are being written having avoided the coming Dark Age - as the single most destructive American politician to ever hold office in Washington.

McConnell’s legacy will be seen as hving made obstructionism accepted and expected - candidly expressing his goal of restricting Barack Obama to a single term; brazenly stealing a Supreme Court seat a year before Donald Trump’s election; leading the Senate to fail to convict Trump in two impeachments, in the second of which McConnell himself publicly accused Donald Trump of being the author of the January 6 insurrection, then failed to find him guilty in the impeachment trial, an act that would have put Trump forever outside American politics.

While he had no problem withstanding the torrent of criticism from those invested in a functional democracy, after witnessing four years of Trump’s destructive antics, after building up considerable personal disdain for the impulsive and egotistical would-be dictator, McConnel watched Trump’s followers sack his Senate and failed to defend it.

Like his fellow Southern traitor John C. Calhoun, his treason against the Republic stemmed from his inability to see past his own provincialism and sectarianism, to act for the greater good of the country

Had McConnell stood up the night of January 6, 2021, and told his conference that he was done, that he was ready to rid his party of this cancer, it was very likely the Senate would have convicted Trump and ended the immediate danger. That didn’t happen. McConnell allowed Trump’s acquittal by the Senate, thus giving him more power over McConnell’s party than before.

The Supreme Court, crafted in his image as he placed the three justices most responsible for the terrible decisions issued by the court in the past four years, is now nakedly partisan, with little interest in precedent or restraint. As a result, the Court, which only works if people respect it as an institution, has seen its approval level drop to record lows.

The ultimate result of McConnell’s partisan ignorance was revealed hours after he announced his departure. After several weeks of delay, McConnell’s Traitor justices announced in a one-page document that they would take up Trump’s immunity challenge, an offshoot of Jack Smith’s January 6 case.

This is nearly as good for Trump as a ruling in his favor, since it makes it all but certain that only one of his four felony indictment cases - the Stormy Daniels election interference and fraud case - will conclude before the 2024 election in November.

While there are those who cannot see the forest for the trees, who will write laudatory praise for McConnell’s congressional chess moves, his capture of the federal judiciary from the Supreme Court to local Federal judges like Aileen Cannon, his ability to keep his conference in lockstep, it is this - allowing a four-times indicted, twice-impeached former president, credibly seen as an international traitor, to cloak himself in the protections of the presidency before the vast legal repercussions facing him wash over and swamp him - that history will record as McConnell’s true legacy.

Destroying the oldest democratic constitutional republic since Rome is no mean achievement.

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