Mitch McConnell vs. Roy Moore is now a battle for the soul of the GOP

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14. I've read the only biographies available, one coolly neutral

but scarcely flattering and another very friendly, and that's about the upshot of his record after over 30 years in politics. His ideology shifted with the times, moderate with some positions considered "liberal" now in the 1970s, then moving to match Reagan and big business's agenda, becoming Chinese business's man in DC after Tienanmen Square, and as the new billionaire class grew supporting extreme economic libertarianism in return for their patronage. But always peddling his vote, and then his increasing power, for more power.

He loves that accumulation and exercise of power but apparently has never been interested in achieving a legacy of anything worthwhile to be known by. In fact, when he finally became majority leader, after 30 years of striving to reach that position, observers wondered if he would now finally start trying to achieve something of value for the history books, and no.