The Senate have the legacy of McConnell to block President Trump.

It will not happen.

Matt Gates has withdrawn his nomination.

And look, let's be brutally frank, you can't take this any other way than a Mitch McConnell win.

Despite predicting that nothing would stop Donald Trump from getting his cabinet picks

confirmed, Steve Bannon has now conceded that something did, something named Mitch McConnell.

Today, the New York Times reports that Senator McConnell is feeling liberated and prepared to defend his chamber independence from Trump.

His chamber's independence from Trump.

But whether the man who privately mused about impeaching Trump before voting to acquit him

and who refused to hold a hearing for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee in an election year

and then expedited President Trump's pick in an election year, whether

that guy is actually the resistance, well, that very much remains to be seen.

McConnell being the sort of unlikely face of, I guess we'll call it a resistance of sorts.

Well, extremely unlikely.

And I think our default position has to be to be skepticism because we've been through this before over and over and over again.

But let's play a quick game of what if.

What if in the twilight of his career, Mitch McConnell actually does regret not disqualifying Donald Trump after January 6th.

What if, in his heart of hearts, Mitch McConnell deeply does resent Trump's conduct and his racist slurs against his wife.

What if Mitch McConnell actually does think that Donald Trump's

foreign policy is dangerous? And what if, in fact, he is serious? I think that this is where I think

you really draw the line, that he is serious about protecting the integrity of the institution,

because Donald Trump, from the moment of his

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