Nearly nine years later, McConnell is no longer his party’s Senate leader, and his long game is nearing its end.
Donald Trump, a man who hates McConnell and whom McConnell hates, is back in the White House.
Elon Musk, in every sense the opposite of “slow and steady,” has seized control over large swaths of the federal government.
To them, he has always been a kind of Republican Voldemort, untethered from morality and interested only in amassing power.
How much did he care about norms, they ask, when he was keeping Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court?.
At his core, he is a creature of Washington, where the Serious People are always playing the long game. »
