Comment: McConnell has shown current value of legacy: zilch
It’s easier to rewrite history than reckon with it.
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The country has been at war with the truth for some time. So in many ways, it’s not surprising that Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has begun to peddle the false notion that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 wasn’t actually an “armed” attempt to stop the certification of the presidential election. He apparently requires a full arsenal of confiscated artillery — rather than an assortment of bats, metal poles, bear spray and various projectiles — before being willing to acquiesce to the accuracy of the term. And it was inevitable that some supporters of the former president would argue without evidence that antifa — a loosely knit group of far-left activists — was behind the Capitol riot, rather than his followers.
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The fate of one’s legacy used to be a reason to pause and reconsider some intemperate act, some plundering of institutions. No more. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has made his disinterest in his legacy plain. He is not a man concerned with the way in which he will be viewed by history. His focus is on how much power he has right now compared with how much was in his grip back then; back when men like him didn’t have to worry about whether their words mattered or that their pronouncements would be questioned.
Back when McConnell’s party was in the majority, he refused to schedule the impeachment trial of Donald Trump while he was still the sitting president of the United States. Instead, McConnell grumpily ensured that the trial would not begin until Trump was out of office, at which point McConnell argued that the Senate no longer had constitutional jurisdiction over Trump because he was no longer the current president. So McConnell voted to acquit him of inciting a riot, based on a loophole of his own imagining.
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