Did we really need another reason to ditch Mitch?

Yesterday the Senate majority leader trashed President Obama, calling him “classless” and telling him to keep “his mouth shut.”

What prompted McConnell’s tirade? A private remark President Obama made last week—describing the pandemic response as a “chaotic disaster.”

President Obama was right. But let’s get a few other things clear:

First, Barack Obama doesn’t need a lesson on class from Mitch McConnell or anyone else.

Second, McConnell’s words drip with condescension and disrespect all too familiar to African Americans of every era.

Third, the most classless president in modern memory sits in the Oval Office right now.

Donald Trump began his rise—make that “descent”—in politics with a race-baiting, dog-whistling, bull-horning attempt to delegitimize our nation’s first African American president. Thousands of lies and bigoted comments later, McConnell remains silent. But now he says this?

Mitch, please.

Andrew Romanoff

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