Look at him, just brimming with confidence.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is dismissing the fact that popular vote loser Donald Trump leaked highly sensitive classified information to Russian officials (who Trump says he met with at the direction of Vladimir Putin) as nothing more than "drama" in the White House. Clearly, it’s drama that's getting in the way of his tax cuts.

Asked for follow up and whether he had anything more to say about the situation or his president, he had one word in answer:

x So McConnell got off the hook on Trump sharing classified info with the Russians with one word: "No," he's not losing confidence.



Ah. Cool. — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 16, 2017

As long as Trump is willing to rubber-stamp McConnell's agenda, he can do anything. He really could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and Mitch would not bat an eye. This is not normal. This is incredibly dangerous. Democrats recognize that, but have yet to escalate their tactics to combat it.

We all know McConnell's methods. He takes a totally outrageous stance, bends his caucus to his will, and muscles it through until he wins. He continues to conduct the Senate as if it is business as usual, and the passage of time generally makes it so. So he succeeds in doing something as unconscionable as blockading President Obama's Supreme Court nominee for a year to steal that seat—and it worked. He did it.

He'll do it again with Trump if he can. He will normalize Trump and everything he does, as long as it means McConnell can get his agenda through.

If Democrats don't do everything in their power to stop it, they'll be complicit.