The New York Post, which generally supports Republicans, writes an editorial in support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. What occasions the editorial is renewed criticism of McConnell by former President Trump.
The Post correctly notes that McConnell has been on the Republican side of most arguments. He is, however, known for his refusal to wholeheartedly endorse Trump's repeated claims the 2020 election was stolen.
COTTonLINE believes the election was rigged in a variety of ways, and conceivably even stolen. As our system is structured, there is no effective way to challenge an election after the votes are counted. Which means there is no point in "I wuz robbed" rhetoric, other than venting, which is always a bad look.
It is okay for Trump to feel he was robbed, but not politically expedient to continue to make the claim, as he has done. Put another way, since Dems spent four years doing their darnedest by fair means and foul to sabotage him, he should have anticipated their rigging efforts and made strenuous counter-rigging efforts in the year before the election.
Trump didn't, and now he's blaming others for what was his lack of foresight or political naïveté. If Trump wants to have a political future that includes elective office, he needs to stop whining and, as he did in 2016, talk about problems that need fixing and his plans to do so. That will require self-discipline to a degree I'm not convinced he can muster.
Bottom line: McConnell's support group is the other 49 senators who elected him Leader, Like the NYP, I trust their judgment that, warts and all, he is the person for the job.
