{"id":2380807,"date":"2024-12-17T05:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-is-the-personification-of-america-in-decline\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T05:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:28:30","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-is-the-personification-of-america-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-is-the-personification-of-america-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Is The Personification Of America In Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmitch-mcconnell-is-the-personification-of-america-in-decline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate \u200bMinority Leader\u2062 Mitch McConnell recently called for \u200ca shift \u2064away from the &#8220;America First&#8221; foreign policy espoused\u2063 by former President Donald Trump. In an op-ed for Foreign Affairs magazine, McConnell urged for an increase in funding \u200bfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-hurricane-helene-ruins-lives-kamala-harris-does-interview-on-sex-talk-podcast-to-speak-about-abortion-rights\/\" title=\"While Hurricane Helene Ruins Lives, Kamala Harris Does Interview on Sex-Talk Podcast to Speak About Abortion Rights\">ongoing international conflicts<\/a> and\u2064 a renewed commitment \u2062to free trade and NATO involvement. He criticized the isolationist trends within\u2063 the Republican Party, arguing \u200dthat the U.S. must maintain its global leadership and not focus solely on \u200bdomestic issues.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his long \u2064tenure in the Senate, \u2062critics point \u200cout that \u200bMcConnell\u200d has\u200d contributed to \u2064various domestic woes, including the decline of America&#8217;s manufacturing sector and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/financial-crisis-looming-due-to-mounting-federal-debt-experts\/\" title=\"Financial Crisis Looming Due to Mounting Federal Debt: Experts\">mounting federal debt<\/a>. while he successfully blocked Merrick garland&#8217;s Supreme\u2064 Court \u2063nomination,he has also \u200bsupported policies that some\u200b believe have undermined American interests at home and \u200babroad.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell has staunchly\u2062 advocated for \u200caid to Ukraine, frequently enough positioning it as a critically \u200dimportant achievement, despite growing discontent among American\u2064 voters regarding foreign\u2062 military engagements. His actions are perceived as \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">overlooking pressing domestic crises<\/a>,such as the opioid epidemic in Kentucky and immigration concerns,which continue to be \u2062top priorities for manny constituents.\u200d McConnell&#8217;s current \u2063stance \u200dreflects his longstanding commitment to a \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-endorses-cheneys-republican-challenger\/\" title=\"McCarthy Endorses Cheney\u2019s Republican Challenger\">hawkish foreign policy<\/a>, a position that is increasingly at odds with the sentiments of many within \u2063his party and\u2062 the American populace.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mitch McConnell wrote an ode to foreign governments on Monday, calling for Donald Trump to reject an America First foreign policy in favor of funding forever wars, doubling down on &ldquo;free trade,&rdquo; and lying prostrate before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/price-american-retreat-trump-mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed for Foreign Affairs magazine<\/a>, criticized what he described as &ldquo;right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline,&rdquo; calling on the incoming government to &ldquo;restore American hard power.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;America will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline,&rdquo; McConnell wrote, making the same tired argument of many hawkish Republicans in eras past. He appears to be enamored by the possibility of spending U.S. tax dollars on any other country except his own, leaving struggling American people in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The administration will face calls from within the Republican Party to give up on American primacy,&rdquo; McConnell added. &ldquo;It must reject them. To pretend that the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;can focus on just one threat at a time, that its credibility is divisible, or that it can afford to shrug off faraway chaos as irrelevant is to ignore its global interests and its adversaries&rsquo; global designs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, however, has been in the Senate for nearly 40 years and has overseen the wholesale liquidation of America&rsquo;s domestic fortitude and power abroad.<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist CEO Sean Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1868675244422049907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out<\/a>, &ldquo;McConnell has overseen the destruction of America&rsquo;s manufacturing base, the destruction of our military to the point we haven&rsquo;t [won] a war since 1991, the 20x <a href=\"https:\/\/fiscaldata.treasury.gov\/americas-finance-guide\/national-debt\/#the-growing-national-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increase in the federal debt<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/china\/report\/china-and-the-global-culture-war-western-civilizational-turmoil-and-beijings-strategic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rise of China<\/a> in to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/global-politics\/commentary\/chinas-global-influence-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nuclear and economic superpower<\/a>, and the leftist takeover of every major institution in America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the lone positive in McConnell&rsquo;s dismal track record is his role in blocking now-Attorney General Merrick Garland&rsquo;s bid for the Supreme Court and facilitating Trump&rsquo;s appointments to that same body. That said, McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/mcconnell-merrick-garland-attorney-general-471177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a> Garland for the Department of Justice, and he subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/10\/merrick-garland-is-the-worst-attorney-general-in-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ran roughshod over the American<\/a> people for four years. McConnell is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/11\/22\/mcconnell-reportedly-was-against-matt-gaetz-bid-for-attorney-general\/76495054007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> one of four Republicans to hold up the nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell has displayed a deep love of Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/04\/01\/congress\/mcconnell-preps-long-battle-with-isolationist-movement-00150036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledging to fight<\/a> Republicans who do not fall in line with his worldview and even touting the procurement of endless cash for the country as one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/mitch-mcconnell-sees-ukraine-aid-one-important-legislative-victories-c-rcna149240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">top career achievements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, when McConnell worked to usher through a $1.75 trillion Democrat spending bill, which gave Ukraine $45 billion, he laid his ideological cards on the table, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1605303815263358976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a>, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill essentially all of our priorities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Funding the war in Ukraine runs contrary to what many Americans want and what most Americans voted for in delivering Trump a legislative and electoral mandate. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/21\/gop-cant-be-successful-until-mitch-mcconnell-is-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ignores domestic crises<\/a> &mdash; particularly ones that ravage his home state of Kentucky, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/sosmap\/drug_poisoning_mortality\/drug_poisoning.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continues<\/a> to see the scourge of fentanyl kill its people. This issue is exacerbated by the border crisis, which consistently lands <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/647123\/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">atop the list of concerns<\/a> for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>As Christopher Bedford wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/04\/mcconnells-retirement-marks-the-end-of-the-disastrous-bush-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">these pages<\/a>, McConnell defined his tenure as Republican leader during the years of President George W. Bush by working toward amnesty for illegals, bailing out Wall Street, and continuing to support yet another forever war in Iraq. He tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/06\/senate-border-bill-is-nothing-but-a-democrat-propaganda-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">push through even more amnesty<\/a> again earlier this year with the much-maligned &ldquo;bipartisan&rdquo; border bill and then <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/25\/mitch-mcconnell-tried-to-bait-and-switch-americans-on-behalf-of-ukraine-and-biden-its-not-trumps-fault-he-failed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turned around and blamed Trump<\/a> for tanking it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in standard neocon fashion, he sold cultural issues like protecting marriage down the river. Amid other domestic crises like a failing economy, far-left grooming of children, and threats from a rising China, McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/16\/mcconnells-ukraine-obsession-further-illustrates-his-disregard-for-the-plights-of-everyday-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dutifully reminded the American people<\/a> that, by far, &ldquo;defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He has also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/the-14-republicans-who-voted-to-advance-democrats-gun-control-wish-list-just-betrayed-their-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advanced far<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-democrat-senator-dashes-his-partys-push-for-gun-control-by-opposing-recently-passed-house-bills\/\" title=\"Top Democrat Senator Dashes His Party\u2019s Push For Gun Control By Opposing Recently Passed House Bills\">-left gun control measures<\/a><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/19\/after-fbi-raids-republicans-last-president-mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-increase-doj-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advocated increased spending at the Federal Bureau of Investigations and DOJ<\/a> &mdash; even after its many abuses under Garland (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/28\/good-riddance-to-mitch-mcconnell-a-list-of-gop-senate-chiefs-worst-blunders-in-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including<\/a> the Mar-a-Lago raid) &mdash; tanked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/05\/08\/mitch-mcconell-2024-senate-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaigns<\/a> of more <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/22\/masters-gets-more-support-after-mcconnell-dumps-opportunity-to-help-pick-up-arizona-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conservative candidates<\/a>, and offered a full-throated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.senate.gov\/newsroom\/remarks\/mcconnell-senate-will-not-allow-vital-security-authorities-to-go-dark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsement<\/a> of FISA.<\/p>\n<p>Though there are too many to name, McConnell&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/28\/good-riddance-to-mitch-mcconnell-a-list-of-gop-senate-chiefs-worst-blunders-in-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">betrayals<\/a> go even further, including tacit endorsement of Trump&rsquo;s impeachment, stabbing pro-life Americans in the back by opposing Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., in his blockade of military promotions, and getting &ldquo;rich on China,&rdquo; as The Federalist&rsquo;s Tristan Justice wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans do not seem prepared to change their tune after McConnell stepped down from leadership. Last month, they gave McConnell the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=9ABC42A5-C9F4-4B17-B6BD-F7EAD23AEDA2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chairmanship<\/a> of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, allowing him to continue to advocate for Ukraine and other foreign spending.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans also coronated the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/13\/after-trump-landslide-gop-senate-votes-for-business-as-usual-in-leadership-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">next-in-line carbon copy<\/a> of McConnell in Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to be the majority leader.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch McConnell urged Trump to abandon America First policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2380808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5438043026_76c3fb3989_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5374,5182,5191,34365,5894],"class_list":["post-2380807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-america","tag-decline","tag-leadership","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5438043026_76c3fb3989_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380811,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380807\/revisions\/2380811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}