and The end of the Mitch McConnell era and the Supreme Court joins the MAGA conspiracy.

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm rich Lowry and I'm joined as always by the right Honorable

Charles C. W. Cook, Madeline, Maddie Kearns, and the notorious

M. B. D.

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MBD, Mitch McConnell has done the right thing and are editorialized months ago when he had these freeze-up

episodes that he was just too old and too infirm to continue in this job he has made the same judgment. You'd hear reports that just

he wasn't as effective as he used to be at meetings because he couldn't really

hear what was being said and would stand up and say things at the end that repeated things

that others had said or weren't entirely relevant to the conversation that it just happened that

it couldn't follow.

He's noticeably more rickety and he's going out on his own terms it would have been

you know one way or the other he was going to get cashier if Trump wins again

which is quite possible but what do you make of Mitch McConnell and his legacy?

I mean Mitch McConnell is one of them will go down as one of the major figures in Senate history.

He was a man totally of the institution and for the institution of the Senate.

It made him a very effective leader

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