BREAKING: Mitch McConnell’s hometown newspaper just published a BRUTAL “pre-obituary” absolutely trashing the “detestable” Senator’s political legacy!
He deserves every word of this…
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen in public for over a month after suffering a serious medical issue and hospitalization.
The aging Senator is not getting any younger either, so Louisville Courier Journal columnist Joseph Gerth decided to publish an HONEST obituary while the Senator was still breathing in order to avoid the inevitable caterwauling from the right-wing about disrespecting the dead.
“With McConnell allegedly on the mend, I figured I’d go ahead and tell you what I think about McConnell now — when no one can complain, ‘How dare you write that about a dead guy?’” jokes Gerth.
“Let me be straight up now, newspaper staff-written obituaries are not intended to eulogize or lionize the dead. They are intended to tell the truth about the recently departed — or the not yet departed, in this case.”
“McConnell is every bit the detestable figure that Nixon was. But unlike Nixon, McConnell never paid for his sins that have damaged our nation’s trust in government, destroyed the country’s ability to have meaningful dialogue and cemented our nation’s politics as an arena in which winning is the only thing that matters.”
“The fall of Nixon was a triumph for our country. It’s hard to imagine McConnell ever having the guts or the desire to protect the nation like Goldwater, Scott and Rhodes did that day in 1974 when they went to the White House and told Nixon it was over.”
“What he’ll be remembered for is two things that have done lasting damage to the country and its politics.”
“First is his cynical and hypocritical manipulation of the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process that over a four-year period shifted the court from a center-right body to a far-right body that overturned 60 years of case law on civil rights and nearly a century of law that empowered Congress to check a president’s power.”
“The man who once boasted that he split with his party in 1964 and voted for Lyndon Johnson because of Goldwater’s opposition to civil rights was the key player in dismantling those rights he stood for as a young man.”
“It seems somehow fitting for the ultimate shape-shifter, who wrote about accompanying Sen. John Sherman Cooper to see Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act into law, that the court he created was the court that struck down the last remaining significant provision.”
“As the court he built chipped away at the Voting Rights Act, McConnell cheered.”
“And it’s not just that he built this court — it’s the hypocritical way he did it.”
“McConnell blocked Barack Obama’s appointment of Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the court in 2016, saying the American people should decide at the polls who got to make an appointment in the last year of an administration.”
“And then after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, McConnell forced through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett just eight days before Trump lost his reelection.”
“McConnell’s shenanigans turned what had been a 5-4 conservative majority — with one member being a reliable swing vote — into a solid 6-3 radical conservative court.”
“In the process, McConnell destroyed the court’s credibility with the American people.”
“But his biggest failing may be his embrace of a president who he believes is stupid and who he believes led an attempt to overthrow the United States’ government on Jan. 6, 2021.
All to protect and increase his own political power.”
“Despite all this, when Trump ran for president in 2024, McConnell continued to support him.
Even when Trump said racist things about McConnell’s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, McConnell continued to bend his knee.”
“And that is the legacy of Mitch McConnell. He ends his career adopting the anti-civil rights positions Barry Goldwater supported, handed to him by a despised and distrusted Supreme Court that he created, but didn’t have an iota of the bravery Goldwater summoned to stand against a criminal and corrupt president.”
“Whew! I’m glad I got that off my chest while he’s still alive.”
All of this absolutely needed to be said, especially in McConnell’s hometown newspaper. His decisions have brought untold harm to the people of the United States and especially to the people of Kentucky. We have a long, brutal fight ahead of us to restore legitimacy to the Supreme Court and break the hold of right-wing extremism on this country.
McConnell will be forever remembered as one of the worst Americans to ever live; a man who dedicated his career to undermining our democracy and entrenching the power of the billionaires at the expense of everyone else, with shocking cruelty and a callous disregard for the needs of working families







