Megathread: Mitch McConnell to Step Down in November as the Leader of the US Senate Republican Conference

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2. Woah. Was not expecting this. Normally I’d say I’d want a younger person but considering they are all mainly maga. I’d be concerned for November if Biden loses the senate. Hopefully he doesn’t.

3. If Moscow Mitch is jumping ship it’s only because he doesn’t see a path back to power.

4. This guy is responsible for so many things that are wrong with the USA these days. Good fucking riddance

5. The end of an error

6. I can say one thing with total confidence:

   Even if the next guy is a worse Republican, there is no way they will be anywhere near as good at their job as Mitch was from a political standpoint.

   He sucked, but he sucked with absolute precision.

7. Folks, there is no hope his replacement is better. There is every chance that his replacement is significantly less competent at what Mitch did.

   That could also translate to better results.

8. I can understand wanting a little break from your decades of work ruining the country before you’re sent to rot in hell forever

9. The lasting damage this man has done to the country is unfathomable.

   I wish him and everyone he’s ever cared about precisely what they deserve in life.

10. McConnell was the central figure in the whole concept of “Party First” Republicanism that allowed Trump to flourish in the first place. The two were very much opposed, but McConnell decided that maintaining power was more important than ideological opposition. I have a feeling that his stepping down is going to lead to complete civil war within the Republican party.

11. I’ll never forget nor forgive him for obstructing Obama’s Supreme Court judge.

12. My only reaction to this news is to freeze and stare blankly ahead for 45-60 seconds.

13. I will never forgive him for slow-walking the Senate vote for Trump’s second impeachment until after his term was expired, then using the excuse that you can’t impeach a former president as a rationale for not convicting. A true piece of shit.

14. The man has, along with Newt Gingrich, caused irreparable harm to the discourse within Congress’ walls as well as it reverberating outside into our MSM and conversations with one another.

15. Blocked a nomination to the courts under the guise of Only fair for the voters to decide then fucking speed runs one closer to the election because a republican president choose. If I believed in hell there’d be a very special spot in hell for the fucker.

16. How many decades has this evil fucked over the country?

17. If any one man will go down in history as the grave digger of American Democracy, it will be Mitch McConnell.

    I’ll be the first in line to piss on that traitorous mother fucker’s grave when he finally goes.

18. NOVEMBER???????? He can’t even talk and he wants to stay another 9 months??????????

19. I blame Mitch McConnell more than any person, other than Trump, for the state of American politics today.

    When Barack Obama was elected, McConnell had a choice: Work with the new president, or devise a plan to destroy anything Obama did in the hopes of crushing Americans’ optimism and building an anger-fueled Republican resurgence.

    He did the latter. It didn’t quite work initially, but it did lodge a wedge in American society. It led Fox News to scream that Obama would kill your grandmothers and send you to camps. It drove many white Baby Boomers insane.

    That paranoia fueled distrust of institutions and set off a cascade of backlash among liberals and conservatives that has led to the overwhelming division of American society. And it led to Trump.

    Now, I suspect McConnell quietly regrets what he did. He helped reconstruct Republican power, but he lost the Republican Party. He crippled the republic.

20. Done got eaten by the monster he created

21. Mitch gave the party to Maga and then pretended like it wasn’t his fault.

22. Mitch McConnell, no man has damaged American democracy as much as he has. Good riddance.

23. McConnell making this announcement speaks volumes about the calculus regarding the R’s making any headway in the election. Get out and vote, but this decision makes me think he doesn’t see a path forward for the R’s. Let’s make it a reality.

24. Remember when Trump called his wife “CoCo” Chow referencing cocaine, then she resigned a week before the administration ended?

    Then of course all his talk about the insurrection and then he decides not to impeach Trump.

    He’s a liar and hypocrite but also accomplished all his aims when it comes to changing the judiciary. Glad he’s gone.

25. He leaves behind a party that hates his guts and credits Trump with many of his accomplishments. I can’t imagine a more fitting departure.

26. “McConnell gave ‘no specific reason for the timing of his decision.”

    It should be noted that it took him 3 minutes of blank staring to respond to the question.

27. Time for the turtle to crawl back into his shell.

    He will not be missed. He’s a horrible human being and a worse politician who has made the lives of everyone in the United States worse by his actions.

28. Glancing at the right’s response to this news. You know the GOP is in BAD shape Mitch The Grim Reaper McConnell is considered a “Leftist RINO”

    The republican party is dead.

29. Explains rumors he’s gonna endorse Trump this cycle despite (allegedly) hating the guy.

    McConnell will be remembered as someone who did great harm to the norms and institutions he was elected to uphold. Kentucky is no better for his decades in leadership. The only one who benefitted was Mitch. Not the state. Not the country.

    TL;DR – Fuck that guy

30. Thanks for NOT impeaching Trumpo the clown when you had the chance. The other stuff too. Good thing like 40% of people in Kentucky vote. Gave you a career.

31. If Trump wins in November, Mitch McConnell’s legacy will be destroying democracy by refusing to hold Trump accountable for January 6. Party over the country. Disgusting.

32. While it’ll be good to finally be rid of him as senate leader, it’s largely moot. He’s done a multiple lifetimes worth of damage in his time as leader. He should be remembered as America’s most effective enemy.

33. His brain is pudding and he’s being MADE to step down behind the scenes.

    Rot in hell traitor

34. McConnell legacy will forever be the hypocrisy of voting on President Trump’s election-year nominee after refusing to even vote on President Obama’s. Trump takes credit for 3 supreme court justices but it was Mitch McConnell!!!

35. The evil demons inside of his meat sack can no longer control the body they inhabit.