Why Trump's return is not Mitch McConnell's fault | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : If he had fallen short, Trump supporters would have ruled the Republican caucus by more than 2-1, with Trump still eligible to run and exercise great influence.
59% : Donald Trump has been back in office one month, and his job-approval ratings are his highest ever -- but lower than for any new president in polling history (except for him in 2017).
42% : If McConnell didn't realize then that Trump is an existential threat to the republic as we have known it, I hope he does now.
37% : " So, as Democrats look for some sort of counterforce to Trump, they should wish their old adversary McConnell well.
34% : Much of what the administration says about government is off base; 11 of its 12 claims about the Agency for International Development are misleading, lacking context, or outright wrong, says Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler.
29% : I agree with Martin, based on the number of Republicans in Trump states who ran for re-election in 2022, and polling in the days after Jan. 6. Republicans' approval ratings for McConnell and Pence Polls showed Republicans' approval of McConnell and then-Vice President Mike Pence, Trump's main target on Jan. 6, fell sharply, but Trump lost just a few points.
26% : It relies mainly on the McConnell mythology that the Senate's longest-serving party leader, who kept a Supreme Court seat vacant for 14 months, surely could have persuaded nine more Republicans to vote against Trump.
18% : So, it's a frustrating time for Democrats, who can't figure out how to get leverage when Republicans are distressingly compliant to Trump and the only major obstacle to autocracy seems to be the courts -- along with the hope that Trump won't defy judicial orders and cause a constitutional crisis.
18% : McConnell said Trump was "practically and morally responsible" for the insurrection but voted against conviction, using the unproven legal theory that impeachment is not constitutional after an officeholder leaves office.
13% : In the absence of a strategy, many Trump critics spend time blaming his return on Sen. Mitch McConnell and what they call his failure to get Trump convicted on impeachment for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and then disqualify him from holding office.
6% : Was failure to convict Trump for Jan. 6 attack McConnell's fault?
2% : Moments before Robert F. Kennedy JR. was sworn in as secretary of HHS, Donald Trump made claims about Mitch McConnell's mental state.

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