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Right-winger calls for 'criminal investigation' as rumors swirl about McConnell
The McConnell Rumor Mill Exposes a Rotten Political CultureSummaryA rumor that Sen. Mitch McConnell is medically incapacitated set off a predictable blast of online spectacle: conspiracies about his wife, insinuations about China, performative outrage from the right, and half-verified gossip from the center-left. The source treats that noise as the story. It is not. The story is the political machinery that turns a powerful man’s possible decline into a scrum of blame, voyeurism, and smear.Power Does Not DisappearMcConnell is not a random elder citizen being discussed in bad faith. He is one…
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