“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?” writes Mitch McConnell in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Wednesday bitching about the Dems’ plans to end or modify the filibuster.
Nice for Mitch that the Wall Street Journal is giving him space to list off Republican legislative priorities that he’d get enacted when the GOP gets back full control of the government, but it’s also interesting that he’s threatening to do the things that he and the rest of the GOP members of Congress are at least theoretically supposed to be working on for their voters like every day. You know, actual goals rather than promises of revenge for making it easier for people to vote and other Center-Left priorities that might come from filibuster reform.
Kind of hard to imagine some MAGA hatter in Kentucky saying “Hey, if I vote to reelect Mitch McConnell, then I’ll get to carry my Glock in Washington, but only in 2025 – at the earliest – if the Dems get rid of a parliamentary roadblock that I don’t even understand”. Hell if anything I think they’d be actually furious with him if they understood the situation and realized that McConnell had the chance to make that happen for them four years ago but passed on it. Lucky for Mitch the vast majority of MAGA voters in Kentucky are fucking stupid and won’t catch on. Also helps to have Tucker Carlson and Frau Ingraham telling them to be angry about Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head, while the Wall Street Journal subscribers who did read this column won’t say anything because legislative inertia has been damn good for them and their mutual funds.