McConnell conjures WWII in warning to foreign paper about Trump

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Senator Mitch McConnell spoke to a British outlet regarding his impending retirement, the state of the world, and President-elect Donald Trump.

McConnell, who is the longest-serving party member in Senate history, is stepping back from his leadership role and is preparing to serve out the final two years of his term as a normal member of Congress. In an interview with the Financial Times, he spoke about Trump’s “America First” slogan and likened the current state of the world to the pre-WWII era.

“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War Two. Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s,” he told interviewer Alex Rogers.

“Warming to his historical theme, McConnell turns to one of the portraits behind him, an influential Senate Republican of the wartime era named Robert A Taft,” Rogers reported. “Son of the 27th president William Howard Taft, Robert was ‘a raging isolationist’ who opposed Lend-Lease before the Second World War and both the creation of Nato and the Marshall Plan afterwards, says McConnell.”

“Thank goodness Eisenhower beat him for the [presidential] nomination in ’52 and had a much different view of America’s role in the world,” the senator noted. “The cost of deterrence is considerably less than the cost of war.”

Rogers made sure to point out that McConnell was specifically speaking about Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

“His words are targeted directly at Trump and vice-president-elect JD Vance, who have argued that the US should not be spending any more money on Ukraine. McConnell is a strong believer in the Ronald Reagan view of the US role in the world, rather than the Trump one,” he wrote.

“To most American voters, I think the simple answer is, ‘Let’s stay out of it.’ That was the argument made in the ’30s and that just won’t work. Thanks to Reagan, we know what does work — not just saying peace through strength, but demonstrating it,” McConnell continued.

The congressman also made clear that he disagrees with Trump’s belief that some Americans are to be considered the “enemy within,” even after all of the persecution, prosecution, and demonization of not only the president-elect but his supporters as well.