Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A ‘Very Dangerous World’
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The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.

Summary

Sen. Mitch McConnell warned that Donald Trump’s presidency places Americans in a “very, very dangerous world,” likening Trump’s isolationist policies to pre-World War II “America First” rhetoric.

McConnell, a staunch interventionist, criticized the GOP’s growing resistance to U.S. global engagement, particularly Trump’s stance on reducing aid to Ukraine.

While he voted for Trump in November, McConnell expressed concerns over Trump’s influence and the party’s direction.

Recently stepping down as Senate GOP leader, McConnell plans to focus his final term on countering isolationism within his party.

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    11·
    11 days ago

    You still chose based on right and wrong, and at the end of the day that’s all most people can do in your fucked up system and that’s ok.

    People like McConnel are the ones with the real power to create the options that the people vote on and when they just vote in line with what their party says every single time they have simply failed as representatives of the people.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Buddy, voting for someone that actively supports a genocide isnt “right” anyway you cut it.

      It’s “less worse”.

      And if you don’t think I’m saying it eloquently enough:

      I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

      https://letterfromjail.com/

      It ain’t just a race thing, it’s a class thing.

      So MLK’s quote is very relevant to how Moderates aren’t our allies, they’re actively working against us.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 days ago

        Easy, bud.

        You had two bad options in front of you and used your sense of right and wrong to choose the one that would hurt the least number of people and who wasn’t a cartoonish villain. It was the right thing to do given the circumstances. The wrong thing would have been to be “right” and claim “both sides” as the excuse for further enabling a literal fascist.

        If you really want to beat yourself up over the fact that your options were bad then by all means, be my guest, but don’t come at me like I was saying that being a moderate is some great thing.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          You had two bad options in front of you and used your sense of right and wrong to choose the one that would hurt the least number of people and who wasn’t a cartoonish villain

          The problem is we haven’t had fair primaries since 2008 and even the “less bad” option is bad.

          There is a very small wing of the Dem party who takes a shit ton of money to (legally) rig the primary

          And we have to face facts that they’re willing to lose the general because the only way they lose power in the party is if a progressive wins and appoints a progressive DNC chair. So because the primary isn’t legally an election and they’re allowed to put a finger on the scale, they ensure progressives can’t win the primary.

          Continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils, just ensures our only two options are evil.

          We’re standing in the middle of a game of chicken where both drivers would rather die than lose.

          You might think it’s not worth talking about, and while I disagree you can have an opinion.

          But why try to stop people from talking about it?

          Isn’t now the perfect time?

          • Soup@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 days ago

            I’m not trying to stop people talking about it. You said it felt bad that you can’t vote right or wrong because both sides feel terrible and the only choice is going for the one that is less terrible. I’m saying that if you voted Dem you still put effort towards doing the right thing. If you really want to feel bad about it from even the angle I’ve been taking this whole time then I’m sorry for interrupting your kink or whatever.