Washington Examiner

Hours after rioters had stormed the Capitol, McConnell took to the Senate chamber to say emphatically, “The United States Senate will not be intimidated…They tried to disrupt our democracy and they failed.” The nation needed to hear precisely that, coming from him, a close ally to Trump who was unwilling to cross the clear, bright line from politics into conduct truly destructive of our constitutional republican system. His words that day will be committed to history.