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famously features a string of Imperial officers being summarily executed by Darth Vader as their horrified successors look on with concern. The lesson? Sometimes, one climbs the ladder only to fall from a greater height.as the Republicans’ leader in the world’s greatest deliberative body, has shown no signs of harboring similar reservations about assuming his new responsibilities, even though the associated risks are abundant.
And while the outlines of the image of McConnell, squish, were drawn during the Tea Party era, it was Trump who colored them in. “But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others,” Federalist 51 reads. “The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Trump’s emergence on the scene has had a kind of force multiplier effect on these trends. His personal hold on a large percentage of the Republican electorate and eagerness to involve himself in primaries has yielded a class of politicians that conceives, or at least that says it conceives, of its role as supporting a fickle man’s whims.
But it’s also true that McConnell was the closest thing to a foil Trump could have had. While the man referred to by his enemies on the Left as Nuclear Mitch might have a well-earned reputation as a ruthless partisan strategist, McConnell remains one of only a few true institutionalists who believe Congress to be indispensable rather than just a means to an end. Similarly, he believed his mandate as leader to be to advance his caucus’s interests rather than the president’s.
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