Politico: “We reached out to scores of top political thinkers and congressional insiders to ask what they think is the single most consequential way McConnell has changed Washington. Their answers spanned a wide range, from normalizing obstruction and shielding Donald Trump from accountability to serving as architect of the Kentucky Republican Party and reshaping the courts. Some said he broke the Senate; others said he saved it. Whether their appraisal of his impact was positive or negative, every participant agreed that we will be living with the Washington that McConnell made long after November….
So future historians reckoning with McConnell’s legacy will have to decide which was more important: the ways he helped to preserve order, or his sins of commission and omission that helped bring on the deluge.
I incline toward the latter….
What is the most consequential way that Mitch McConnell has shaped American politics? Here’s a contender: warping the appointment of Supreme Court justices to the point that the Court can delay justice in service of Donald Trump taking power, thereby jeopardizing the future of American democracy….
Senator McConnell should be remembered as the leader who is largely responsible for breaking the Senate — probably beyond repair.”