Mitch McConnell Needs to Step Aside

Mitch McConnell is truly a legend of the U.S. Senate. He’s been one of the most effective leaders in memory, he deeply understands and cares about the institution, and he’s had an outsized influence on his party for decades now.

As of the beginning of this Congress, McConnell set the record for the longest-serving party leader in the history of the Senate. (To mark the occasion, he gave a typically thoughtful speech on the prior holder of the record, the Montana Democrat Mike Mansfield.)