Mitch McConnell So Doesn’t Get It … 2020 Was NOT A One-Off

Mitch McConnell is not happy that many Democrats want to do away with the Senate’s filibuster:

McConnell recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he listed all his reasons for not ending the filibuster including this:

And then there’s the small problem that majorities are never permanent. The last time a Democratic majority leader was trying to start a nuclear exchange— Harry Reid in 2013—I offered a warning. I said my colleagues would regret it a lot sooner than they thought. A few years and a few Supreme Court vacancies later, many of our Democratic colleagues admitted publicly that they did.

If the Democrats kill the legislative filibuster, history would repeat itself, but more dramatically. As soon as Republicans wound up back in control, we wouldn’t stop at erasing every liberal change that hurt the country. We’d strengthen America with all kinds of conservative policies with zero input from the other side.

How about a nationwide right-to-work law? Defunding Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities on day one? A whole new era of domestic energy production. Sweeping new protections for conscience and the right to life of the unborn? Concealed-carry reciprocity in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Massive hardening of security on our southern border?

McConnell is assuming that the 2020 election was a one-off. That the Democrat Party and its allies in Big Tech and the corporate media will not use the voter-fraud, election-rigging tactics that they used against Trump to keep control of the Senate.

This is hopelessly naive thinking. The Left’s immediate goal was to take out Trump because Trump represented their greatest obstacle. But taking out Trump was not and is not the ultimate goal. That goal is total power.

And if that requires going after the GOP Senators running for reelection in 2022 the same way they went after Trump, you can be damn sure that they won’t hesitate.

The political rules-of-engagement have changed forever and Mitch is blind to it.