RRL legal adviser and spokesman Chris Truax released a written statement on McConnell’s negligence. “Instead of seizing the moment for bipartisan action, the Senate GOP blocked multiple election security bills claiming that they were ‘partisan’ efforts at ‘federalizing elections,’ ” Truax said. “But this characterization ignores that several of the currently stalled bills are co-sponsored by Republican senators like Marco Rubio, James Lankford, and Lindsay Graham.” He continued, “Our representatives should work to pass bi-partisan legislation to deter future election meddling, secure our electoral system, and encourage cybersecurity. This is not a red team/blue team issue.”

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Just as President Trump leaps from one controversy to another so that we lose track of each episode in the blur of calamities, McConnell may figure that he can seriously ignore voters and thereby keep them from fixating on any one issue.

That, in all likelihood, won’t work, in part because although he has fans, McConnell doesn’t have a cult following that will rationalize anything he does. Moreover, his refusal to act against a foreign enemy and to help protect us against domestic white nationalist terrorism reinforces the total disregard for his oath of office. As Truax said regarding the election security issue, “Every member of Congress took an oath to defend America from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. It’s time that Congress and Mitch McConnell lived up to that oath.”