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Fact-checker struggles to defuse wild Mitch McConnell death rumors
The Party of Secrecy, the Politics of a Missing SenatorPower Is Still the StoryMitch McConnell is not a private citizen wandering through rumor. He is one of the most powerful Republican operators of the last generation, and the basic political fact in this story is his disappearance from public view. The issue is not internet weirdness first. The issue is that an institutional heavyweight can vanish into managed opacity while his office asks everyone else to treat the situation as normal.The Vacuum Was BuiltThe source material is careful to note that the “dead body” claim was false and that…
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