Opinion: The Democratic Party should get inside Mitch McConnell’s head
By Richard Cohen Richard Cohen Columnist focusing on politics Email Bio Columnist April 29 at 4:12 PM The Democratic Party would be wise to get inside Mitch McConnell’s head. It is a dark place, to be sure, full of furious resentments, but it is amazingly disciplined and organized so that nothing matters but certain cherished goals. One of them is to make President Trump think he’s in charge of the Republican agenda. The other is to implement the Republican agenda.
McConnell is the great enabler. Trump has insulted him. He has berated him. He has zinged him on Twitter and harangued him over the phone. But the Senate majority leader, like the Little Engine That Could, just keeps on going. He will not resign over principle because he has none. It is best in Washington to travel light.
A number of Democratic candidacies fall into the same category. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg is an exciting new face, intellectually keen and dynamic, yet he’s also gay and married, and while I would exult in a picture of the two under the White House Christmas tree, I don’t think it would be embraced by portions of the United States. Mayor Pete is young, only 37. He can wait. First things first, and the first thing is to defeat Trump.
Those italicized words contain more than enough hemlock to kill the Democratic Party’s chances of doing in Trump. These are the lemmings, smugly heading toward the sea, consumed with virtue and deluded by a misreading of history. In the past, it was possible to argue that the difference between the two parties amounted to the difference between Tweedledee and Tweedledum or, to update matters, one Kardashian or another. But that is not the case for 2020.
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