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really good piece: slate.com/news-and-polit… McConnell and Trump's judicial handiwork could, quite intentionally, result in a country with the segregation and economic feudalism of the pre-New Deal era.
the open door to a markedly more racist, undemocratic and oligarchic society is not, strictly speaking, Trump's doing. it's a longstanding priority of establishment conservative politicians and organizations, their *reward* for looking past Trump's cartoonish corruption.
many of the worst, most consequential things about Trump's administration are the things that Mitch McConnell is getting *in exchange for his support.*
this is why McConnell can justify blockading Obama judicial appointments and bending the rules to rush through Trump's: because he believes that the societal advances of the past 90 years were an error his judges can remedy.
(any political theory that you make that is premised on Mitch McConnell doing something because it's the right thing or good for the country is a bad theory you should immediately change, is one takeaway here)
