"Gravedigger of American Democracy": McConnell gave us the do-nothing Congress

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "We're confronted with severe challenges from a new administration, and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that's 100 percent of my focus.
56% : Relief for student debt, firearm and discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans faced roadblocks in the courts.
52% : Not one Senate Republican voted in favor of the Affordable Care Act.
52% : McConnell and Trump were laser-focused on the lower courts as well, stacking the wider judiciary with 226 right-wing justices in just four years, rivaling the appellate appointment count of two-term presidents.
47% : But McConnell chose to spare Trump at every pass.
37% : With a chance to augment the judiciary for a generation, the Majority Leader abandoned his vaunted norms of prior sessions and helped Trump ram Justices Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett through the chamber.
19% : Votes against Trump's anti-scientific and hair-raising Cabinet nominees proved unsuccessful and inspired Trump to call McConnell "not equipped mentally" for leadership from the Resolute Desk.
13% : Endorsing the President in 2020 and 2024, and even sparing Trump in a Senate impeachment trial after he led a violent mob of supporters to stop the certification of Biden's election win, McConnell tossed his most powerful critic a lifeline.

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