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Mitch McConnell Says He's Not Responsible for America's Managed Decline

2024-12-10

How about just being a contributing factor? Lots of people played a part — the honourable senator from the great state of Kentucky just played a bigger one than most by the end.

[BREITBART] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) displaced blame on Saturday for the nation's managed decline under his long tenure in the Senate.

Many economic nationalists believe McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in American history, has managed the nation's decline while elites profited.

McConnell apparently disagrees. He suggested at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum that MAGA is responsible for the managed decline, even though the movement is only eight years old. McConnell has been in power since 1985.

Under McConnell's Senate leadership, the national debt rose more than $35 trillion, illegal immigration surged, and real wages for American workers have not grown. Obamacare was enacted in 2010. Congress bailed out big banks in 2008, and social media companies silenced individuals without repercussions. McConnell also has ties to the Chinese government.

''Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America's place,'' he said.

''Let's be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,'' he said with a veiled swipe at MAGA.

''Even as allies across NATO and the Indo-Pacific renew their own commitments to hard power, to interoperability, and to collective defense, some now question America's own role at the center of these force-multiplying institutions and partnerships''

Posted by:Fred

#9 a post turtle.

Posted by: alanc 2024-12-10 17:44

#8 And apparently Mitch the Glitch had another moment and fell.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-12-10 16:05

#7 One of the original Republicans Against Trump, so you know he was getting his.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-12-10 16:03

#6 Pure globalist.
Reagan led the West, and not all of it.
Hell, tons of Europeans hated Reagan and made it known, loudly.

Posted by: Injun the Wicked3081 2024-12-10 11:10

#5 At best McConnell is a bridge building Col Nicholson character, but I see Mitch as more of an opportunist and a corporatist who has sold out Republican voters for the interests of donors who have compensated him.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-12-10 10:18

#4 Meanwhile you allow your pal Schumer to ram through judicial appointments before the new Congress sits.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-10 07:18

#3 Wouldn't expect this SOB to accept responsibility for anything.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-12-10 06:59

#2 I have way more contempt for the GOP Politicians like McConnell than the leftist Dems. Mitch, Paul Ryan, Romney…. Could have stopped the decline (they said they would) yet they facilitated it. Maybe Mitch can take the CEO role over at United Healthcare.

Posted by: Airandee 2024-12-10 06:38

#1 Maybe not, but he also did not try to stop it. And kids, that is his job...

Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-12-10 01:07

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