This may explain why they are hiding Mitch McConnell's condition

[BH liberal]

77. Spot-on, hatrack! McConnell has indeed been...

one of the chief gravediggers of American democracy. He cynically instituted the constant use of the filibuster after the GOP lost control of the Congress in 2006. He rolled the dice because, as one of his own GOP congressional caucus members noted, the Republican brand had become "dog food". And nobody stopped McConnell. The gridlock that we have seen since has only worsened to the point Congress barely gets anything done. Mitch infamously torpedoed normal procedure for supreme court picks, packed the judiciary with right wing idealogues...among his many other sins. He helped create the Trumpenstein Monster. Maybe, like the German politicians of the 1930's who thought they could control Hitler, McConnell thought the GOP could do the same with the Orange Menace. People who don't learn from history...