years from now, history will look back on the likes of Schumer and Jeffries as the most pathetic, cowardly human beings we may have ever seen in Congress
I mean, I’d like to believe that. But does anyone look back at Tip O’Neal or Tom Daschle this way? Does anyone remember these guys at all? Even someone as relatively recent and memorable as Ted Kennedy or historic as Goldwater get drowned out in the deluge of the modern moment.
I don’t think anyone is going to be talking about Schumer or Jeffries or McConnell or Johnson in something more than a footnote. Maybe Gingrich will get a nod, if only for the degree to which he self-branded and then flopped on his face - a sort of modern day Henry Clay in that regard. But Trump kinda sucks all the oxygen out of the room. It’s like asking who the House Speaker was during the Nixon administration.
Mitch has been the (public) headliner for the Republican for a long time. It might not be in high school textbooks but history will make a note of the Republican party he led.
I mean, I’d like to believe that. But does anyone look back at Tip O’Neal or Tom Daschle this way? Does anyone remember these guys at all? Even someone as relatively recent and memorable as Ted Kennedy or historic as Goldwater get drowned out in the deluge of the modern moment.
I don’t think anyone is going to be talking about Schumer or Jeffries or McConnell or Johnson in something more than a footnote. Maybe Gingrich will get a nod, if only for the degree to which he self-branded and then flopped on his face - a sort of modern day Henry Clay in that regard. But Trump kinda sucks all the oxygen out of the room. It’s like asking who the House Speaker was during the Nixon administration.
Mitch has been the (public) headliner for the Republican for a long time. It might not be in high school textbooks but history will make a note of the Republican party he led.
I mean, maybe? How many majority leaders can you name prior to Mitch’s reign of terror?