McConnell's Brag About Boosting Biden's Foreign Policy Was Ill-Advised

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky went on a big media tour to praise President Biden's foreign policy, to take credit for a massive additional spending package for Ukraine, and to virulently attack the 11 Republican senators and 57 Republican members of Congress who voted against it.

"McConnell Casts Ukraine Vote as Victory Over Republican Party's Isolationist Wing," touted the Wall Street Journal, using a derogatory and inaccurate term to describe the growing coalition that opposes Biden's non-strategic foreign policy that appears untethered to any long-term national security interest.

McConnell's victory tour was lapped up by a D.C. media establishment that shares his goal of returning the Republican Party to its Bush-era foreign policy, and to disparage any voices supportive of former President Donald Trump, who had expressed concern about the costs and national security risks of escalating the war in Russia.

"It's a small isolationist group, somewhat encouraged by the former president. But it's not widely held among Republicans in Congress, and I don't think among the public in general," McConnell told Politico.

Working to avoid quagmires and nuclear wars during a time of economic malaise is not "Isolationism," but it's also not true that the group opposing McConnell and Biden is "Small."

A brand-new Associated Press poll shows that voters across the political spectrum are souring on the Biden-McConnell foreign policy approach toward Ukraine.

McConnell's decision to latch himself to Biden's foreign policy approach - and bash his colleagues who oppose it - comes at a time Biden is dealing with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, according to the Associated Press.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/27/mitch-mcconnells-media-tour-to-brag-about-defeating-gop-opponents-of-bidens-foreign-policy-was-remarkably-ill-advised/