Opinion: This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for Sen. Mitch McConnell

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : It's because of that last McConnell "achievement" that we face Trump 2.0.
48% : As ruthless and rule-bending as McConnell has been on judicial confirmations and more, I'm betting he'll respect institutional and constitutional lines that Trump scornfully crosses, and recruit a few other Republican senators to help hold those lines.
43% : He even relishes the schoolyard nickname Trump gave him -- "Old Crow" -- doling out bottles of the Kentucky bourbon with his mug on the label.
42% : McConnell will go along with many Trump actions, including serving up a bounty of unaffordable new tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, urging Americans to gorge on fossil fuels and, again, stuffing the courts with right-wing ideologues.
33% : A few Republicans are all that's needed when the party's majority is a narrow 53 to 47; Trump can lose just four votes if Democrats are united in opposition.
30% : Had the Senate convicted Trump in February 2021, it probably would have followed with a vote to bar him from running for office again, as the Senate has for impeached and convicted judges.
27% : McConnell may be stooped with age, but he's suggesting publicly and privately that he'll rise to the occasion as leader of a Republican resistance in the Senate, providing cover to others, should Trump overreach.
23% : "Opposition to Ukraine is about as much nonsense as [saying] Biden wasn't legitimately elected," McConnell says in a bite at Trump in a new biography, "The Price of Power.
19% : I count up to a dozen Republicans who could take turns to buck Trump occasionally, which would dilute the political pain of Trump's wrath.
9% : McConnell's nearly immediate response amounted to "No way."If Trump, as president, carries through on his threat to illegally impound funds that Congress approves, expect McConnell to cry foul, and even back a court challenge.

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