Out with the old, in with the new.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), longtime Republican Party leader in the Senate, announced he won’t be running for re-election come 2026. The announcement wasn’t entirely unexpected, but it did spark quite an uproar of reactions. MAGA Republicans across the nation – many of whom called for the aged lawmaker to resign after a fall in December – took to social media to express their feelings regarding the announcement. The responses were varied, but the best way to sum up the general idea of it would probably be “good riddance.”
The End of McConnell Is the End of an Age
“History became legend. Legend became myth,” said the character Galadriel in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Thus, one might say, it went with McConnell, who was first elected to the Senate in…
