didn't become Mitch McConnell by being some sort of zealous and conservative preserver of Constitutional Norms, he is a schemer and a manipulator and exploiter of loopholes on behave of his sponsors and contributors. He also didn't become a power in the US Senate by doing the American People any damn favors, as far as he is concerned, we are the problem...a bunch a damn freeloaders he needs to keep at bay.
So of course, having coming within an inch not even a month ago of being lynch by Donald Trump's mob of Deplorables, it makes perfect sense that Senator McConnell would vote to acquit the Ex-President of any wrongdoing at Yesterday's impeachment trial, given the way he views public life, it was inevitable.
Granted he made a mealy-mouthed speech afterwards asserting Trump's responsibility for the violence in no uncertain terms. Nonetheless voting to convict meant expending political capital that McConnell needs for other projects, so he essentially wished the problem onto the lower courts in hopes they'll purge Trump from public live for him.
It is pretty craven, but McConnell is a craven man, he is insolent when he has power and an insufferable Uriah Heep when power is denied him. That he has done incalculable damage to the rule of law and the US Constitution is beside the point, he preserved his own miserable jobbery and thats all that is important.
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