Commentary
The re-election of Mitch McConnell to the Republican Senate leadership is but one more shot in the gut to a good portion of the American people.
That portion includes social conservatives, religious conservatives, old-fashioned patriots, moderates and independents who cling to traditional notions of masculinity and fatherhood, working-class voters who’ve watched globalization and immigration kill jobs and reduce wages, cultural conservatives who loathe the spread of coarse pop drivel through every public space, parents who’ve had their kids come home from school with tales of CRT and LGBTQ shenanigans, parents of soldiers and soldiers themselves who recoiled at the withdrawal from Afghanistan and fear what’s coming in Ukraine … tens of millions of Americans, that is, who are increasingly asking what they’ve been doing with their votes….