To the Editor: Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy have no one to blame but themselves. Fearful of a woefully misinformed, angry, populist faction within their party, the two GOP lawmakers spent the last four years first indulging and later cowering before the most-inept, corrupt and dishonest president in American history, Donald Trump. In doing so, these two learned the lesson most middle-schoolers discover by puberty: confront your bully the first time he takes your lunch money or he owns you forever.
It seemed that leader McConnell finally decided to confront his bully when, following the Capitol attack, he said "the mob was fed lies...they were provoked by the President and other powerful people." Unfortunately for Mr. McConnell, enlightenment hadn't reach enough of his members to provide the courage the leader needed. When a vote came on moving impeachment forward and he realized his caucus would not provide the 17 votes needed to convict Trump, Mitch joined the "other powerful people" and voted NO.
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