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'Clearly this man is dead': Mary Trump demands to see Mitch McConnell’s corpse
Mitch McConnell Is Not the StoryThe Spectacle Is the DistractionThe source text treats Mitch McConnell’s health like a grotesque guessing game: is he alive, dead, hidden, propped up, or politically inconvenient? That is the wrong frame, and it is doing work. It shifts attention from institutional power to gossip, from Republican control to pundit panic. The public is being handed a corpse-mystery when the real subject is a machine that has spent years converting minority rule into durable power.Who Actually Holds PowerMcConnell is not just a senator in the abstract. The source reminds us he…
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