Judging Mitch: The battle over McConnell’s legacy
“McConnell will never be a transformative leader,” argues James Wallner, a scholar of legislative politics and senior fellow at the R Street Institute who worked at the Senate steering committee under Sens. Sessions, Lee, and Toomey.
“Don’t get me wrong. He’s very good at what he does. He approaches his job like a factory foreman. He sees the senate as a factory that produces widgets. And the way you produce a widget is to control the means of production. Which means you have to win elections. Then you get seats and you get gavels. So the electoral side of things takes precedence over the policy, because it is a means to an end.”
