Mitch McConnell..."gravedigger of American Democracy"
"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell. He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could. As with parliamentary gridlock in Weimar, congressional gridlock in the US has diminished respect for democratic norms, allowing McConnell to trample them even more. Nowhere is this vicious circle clearer than in the obliteration of traditional precedents concerning judicial appointments. Systematic obstruction of nominations in Obama’s first term provoked Democrats to scrap the filibuster for all but Supreme Court nominations. Then McConnell’s unprecedented blocking of the Merrick Garland nomination required him in turn to scrap the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in order to complete the “steal” of Antonin Scalia’s seat and confirm Neil Gorsuch. The extreme politicization of the judicial nomination process is once again on display in the current Kavanaugh hearings."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/21/1826960/-Historian-ponders-McConnell-s-role-as-a-gravedigger-of-American-democracy
McTurtle is finishing the job started by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. Hard to see how things return to "normal".
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and the "wisdom" they're supposed to bring, the turtle has rarely acted in support of the Constitution.
He is the current prezident's* chief enabler. 
Open the government, Mitch! 
