According to reporting by Axios last month, McConnell told a room full of donors, lobbyists, and in-cycle senators that he would not be putting forward an agenda outlining the priorities for his conference should Senate Republicans regain a majority in 2022.
The problem is that the same phenomenon that is pushing voters into the arms of the GOP - the facts that people's lives are being ruined, their livelihoods upended, and the fundamental nature of individual liberty distorted by Democrats in both the public and private sector - is likewise raising the stakes for what's expected of the GOP. As more voters turn to Republicans in desperate hope they'll make the beatings stop, Republicans have to commit to doing it.
The multi-directional onslaught unleashed on voters by Democrats, public health tyrants, and the corporate sector requires a bold and kinetic response from Republicans.
Although establishment Republicans love to mock the call to "Fight" on behalf of the voters, sustained and focused action, even when ultimately unsuccessful, resonates with voters more than the usual establishment game of tut-tutting conservatives as unserious, lowering expectations through the floor, and pivoting instead to discussions of "What's possible."
Whether or not a future Republican Senate can rise to the task of actually meeting voter concerns - providing even the most baseline function of a legislative body in letting voters see their concerns addressed, discussed, and considered in the Senate - is a prerogative that sits equally on the shoulders of Republican senators.
Republicans cannot, in other words, do what they have largely always done with a Senate majority: set it on a shelf, polish it, and admire it from afar while checking off a Beltway-driven agenda designed solely to protect incumbents.
If Senate Republicans cannot find it in them to stand up for their voters now, when the stakes are so perilous and the moment so fraught, then what are they good for?
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Republicans cannot afford to do what they have largely always done with a Senate majority: set it on a shelf, polish it, and admire it from afar.
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