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Let’s Talk About the 2020 Senate Race in Kentucky.
It could be a senate race that shapes the entire government, and the Democrats have an…interesting strategy.
With the old wounds of 2016 still fresh in our memories, and the grass roots movement it propelled in the 2018 election, there’s no denying that the United States is potentially on the verge of something pivotal. 2020 will be a clear indicator of where our government is heading for the foreseeable future, in ways we could scarcely imagine even in 2016. But amidst all the energy on the ground with leftist candidates launching primary campaigns against politicians such as Steny Hoyer, Henry Cuellar, and even Nancy Pelosi, there’s a Democrat vs. Republican Senatorial race that could have the potential to change the dynamics of the entire U.S. senate, and by extension the entire U.S. government itself.
Imagine, if you will, a Senate without Mitch McConnell. A senate that would no longer have to endure his looming presence as it has for decades, where the unprecedented partisan gridlock at his hands and the brazen mockery of everything our government is (theoretically) supposed to do would be no more. Imagine a senate where the Majority leader didn’t self identify as the grim reaper, and didnt have a history of filibustering his own bills because the…