If you haven't watched Amy McGrath's campaign announcement video yet, do yourself a favor. Watch. What she does in that video is really important.
In it, she does a tremendous service to American politics: She goes straight at Mitch McConnell, her opponent, with everything he deserves.
Everything that's wrong in Washington had to start someplace. How did it come to this, that even within our own families, we can’t talk to each other about the leaders of our country anymore without anger and blame? Well, it started with this man, who was elected a lifetime ago and who has, bit by bit, year by year, turned Washington into something we all despise. Where dysfunction and chaos are political weapons. Where budgets, and health care, and the Supreme Court are held hostage. A place where ideals go to die. I’m running for Senate because it shouldn’t be like this.
If one man can be deemed the culprit for everything wrong in American politics in 2019, it's this one. You want to talk about the masses of corporate dark money flowing into political campaigns? He's made it into a personal cause since at least 1990, when he filibustered a majority campaign finance reform bill. You want to talk about a Supreme Court committed to making sure Republicans can "constitutionally" cheat their way into a permanent majority? That's down to McConnell. You want to talk about a Senate that is historically unproductive? Yep. That's his, too. Oh, and knowingly allowing a Republican president elected with the help of a foreign adversary? That's on him as well.
He's skated on this with the public for far too long, behind the scenes and using the cloak of boring Senate procedure, somehow hoodwinking the traditional media into the idea that everything he's done to destroy the Senate as we've known it for nearly two and a half centuries is just normal procedure.
Amy McGrath isn't going to let him keep getting away with it. She narrowly lost a House race in 2018 because she didn't go negative. That's not going to happen this time around, she promises. "I'm going to take it to Sen. McConnell," she said Tuesday morning. Good. He deserves everything she's got.
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