HERE LIES THE “PARTY OF LINCOLN”
S AUGUST BECAME SEPTEMBER, AND AS THE 2022 MID term elections gradually got close enough for everyone to get a clear look at them, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell had a very bad week at work. For months there had seemed a decent chance that, come January, he would transform into the majority leader again. Then suddenly, all hell broke loose around him. He was caught up in feuds with Senator Rick Scott, who was the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and with Peter Thiel, the fabulously wealthy cyber-millenarian who has grand dreams of turning the United States into a technooligarchy once we all give up that self-government business. In both cases, McConnell was the voice of reason. That was enough to stir up the extremists.
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