Norm Ornstein on the Capitol carnage, the Biden presidency and Trump s impeachment
Norm Ornstein on why we must learn the truth about the Capitol attack, using the impeachment trial as leverage
January 21, 2021 12:00PM (UTC)
(L) West Front of the U.S. Capitol during Joe Biden s Presidential inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (R) US President Donald Trumps supporters riot outside the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)
Senior: Good riddance, Leader McConnell
Jennifer Senior
The New York Times
So tell me, Mitch, in these, your final hours as Senate majority leader: Were the judges and the tax cuts worth it?
Were they worth the sacking of the Capitol? The annexation of the Republican Party by the paranoiacs and the delusional? The degradation, possibly irremediable, of democracy itself?
Those close to him say that Mitch McConnell has his eye on his legacy, now more than ever. But I wonder whether he already understands, in some back bay of his brain where the gears haven’t been ground to nubs, that history will not treat him well.
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