From HuffPost Politics on 2024-03-01 15:57 — Kevin Robillard (email kevin.robillard@huffpost.com , Twitter @Robillard) Image credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Mitch McConnell Changed American Politics, helped create the era of big-money politics; and shaped the Supreme Court’s archconservative majority.
So does the Harper gang with Pierre Poilievre as PM want to remake a Canada in the American image?
No single man has done more to shape modern American politics, and the modern Senate than Mitch McConnell!
He helped create the era of big-money politics; shaped the Supreme Court’s archconservative majority; and ratcheted up Senate obstruction to new levels. All of those came together to define his relationship with former President Donald Trump, the man who would ultimately take over the GOP McConnell built.
In the days since Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his role leading Senate Republicans, evaluations of his tenure have often deployed a word McConnell loves to use to describe himself: “institutionalist.”
“I love the Senate,” McConnell said Wednesday during a speech on the Senate floor. “It has been my life. There may be more distinguished members of this body throughout our history, but I doubt there were any with any more admiration for the Senate.”
To describe McConnell as an institutionalist, however, is to give him an incredibly short shrift. No single man has done more to shape modern American politics, and the modern Senate, than McConnell. He helped create the era of big-money politics; shaped the Supreme Court’s archconservative majority; and ratcheted up Senate obstruction to new levels. All of those came together to define his relationship with former President Donald Trump, the man who would ultimately take over the GOP McConnell built.
McConnell’s disdain for Trump — and for the business mogul’s isolationist and protectionist policies — has been obvious at times, but he continued to justify working with him to achieve broader
conservative goals, even as Trump brought American democracy to the brink. He rarely backed up his tough talk about opposing Trump with hard actions, and is now stepping aside as Trump is poised to seize control of the GOP yet again.
McConnell’s defenders have long portrayed him as holding up the grandest traditions of the upper chamber. But even his longstanding opposition to weakening the filibuster could not stand once it got in the way of an otherwise attainable bit of political power.
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Personal editorializing: In the headline to this post, i characterized the Harper Gang & Pierre Poilievre; this is why!
Before being defeated or during his tenure as PM, it wasn’t clear to me, he served as head of an international Conservative organization dedicated to spreading Harper’s brand of conservatism all over the world. As we know, Harper’s brand of conservatism was the platform for the Reform Party, later the Canadian Alliance, and now our Conservative Party since the Harper take-over.
As for Pierre Poilievre, he served as Harper’s 
minister for democratic reform from 2013 to 2015 & as his minister of employment and social development in 2015. From 2017 to 2022, Poilievre served as the shadow minister for finance and briefly as the shadow minister for jobs and industry. Remember Jason Kenney, well he was Poilievre’s mentor with the Reform Party.
It was also significant to me that Poilievre described himself as libertarian-minded, and after reviewing his history with the Canadian Reform Party & Jason Kenney, he’s telling us the truth.
That’s why i believe Poilievre is hiding an entire iceberg of changes he wants to make to Canada. To understand what those changes might look like, i looked at the Reform Party manifesto, as well as the Wild Rose Party’s.
To be armed is to be forewarned.
The story about Mitch McConnell is being re-published from HuffPost Politics. The American social media moguls still refuse to respect Canadian rights, blocking us from sharing already published stories through their platforms. Therefore i will be copying, posting, and attributing interesting and informative articles on my blog.
Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the experience and the content. Cheers, joseph
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