Mitch McConnell knows that he can't usurp the will of his party's unhinged primary voters who selected Donald Trump as the GOP Presidential nominee. Once vehemently opposed to Trump, like so many other 'establishment' Republicans, McConnell has swallowed his medicine and has fallen in line.
This is the Majority Leader who encouraged Republican Senatorial candidates to run ads against Trump, just a few months ago. Several GOP leaders
drafted plans to overtake Mr. Trump in a brokered convention, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election.
McConnell has obviously abandoned this train of thought and has hopped on board the Trump Train to Tyranny. He's now gently encouraging Speaker Paul Ryan to join him in party unity for the sake of SCOTUS. Mitch knows how important it is to replace Scalia with another fascist misogynist.
In Trump/McConnell's opinion, the list of far-right, religious zealots suggested by Donald Trump as potential high court nominees suits the Majority Leader just fine. Each one passed McConnell's Pro-Koch and anti-woman litmus tests with flying colors.
