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Mitch McConnell wrote an ode to foreign governments on Monday, calling for Donald Trump to reject an America First foreign policy in favor of funding forever wars, doubling down on “free trade,” and lying prostrate before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

McConnell, in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs magazine, criticized what he described as “right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline,” calling on the incoming government to “restore American hard power.”

“America will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline,” McConnell wrote, making the same tired argument of many hawkish Republicans in eras past. He appears to be enamored by the possibility of spending U.S. tax dollars on any other country except his own, leaving struggling American people in the dust.

“The administration will face calls from within the Republican Party to give up on American primacy,” McConnell added. “It must reject them. To pretend that the United States can focus on just one threat at a time, that its credibility is divisible, or that it can afford to shrug off faraway chaos as irrelevant is to ignore its global interests and its adversaries’ global designs.”

McConnell, however, has been in the Senate for nearly 40 years and has overseen the wholesale liquidation of America’s domestic fortitude and power abroad.

As The Federalist CEO Sean Davis pointed out, “McConnell has overseen the destruction of America’s manufacturing base, the destruction of our military to the point we haven’t [won] a war since 1991, the 20x increase in the federal debt, the rise of China in to a nuclear and economic superpower, and the leftist takeover of every major institution in America.”

Perhaps the lone positive in McConnell’s dismal track record is his role in blocking now-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s bid for the Supreme Court and facilitating Trump’s appointments to that same body. That said, McConnell supported Garland for the Department of Justice, and he subsequently ran roughshod over the American people for four years. McConnell is also reportedly one of four Republicans to hold up the nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general.

McConnell has displayed a deep love of Ukraine, pledging to fight Republicans who do not fall in line with his worldview and even touting the procurement of endless cash for the country as one of his top career achievements.

In 2022, when McConnell worked to usher through a $1.75 trillion Democrat spending bill, which gave Ukraine $45 billion, he laid his ideological cards on the table, saying, “I’m pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill essentially all of our priorities.”

Funding the war in Ukraine runs contrary to what many Americans want and what most Americans voted for in delivering Trump a legislative and electoral mandate. It also ignores domestic crises — particularly ones that ravage his home state of Kentucky, which continues to see the scourge of fentanyl kill its people. This issue is exacerbated by the border crisis, which consistently lands atop the list of concerns for Americans.

As Christopher Bedford wrote in these pages, McConnell defined his tenure as Republican leader during the years of President George W. Bush by working toward amnesty for illegals, bailing out Wall Street, and continuing to support yet another forever war in Iraq. He tried to push through even more amnesty again earlier this year with the much-maligned “bipartisan” border bill and then turned around and blamed Trump for tanking it.

Meanwhile, in standard neocon fashion, he sold cultural issues like protecting marriage down the river. Amid other domestic crises like a failing economy, far-left grooming of children, and threats from a rising China, McConnell dutifully reminded the American people that, by far, “defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.”

He has also advanced far-left gun control measures, advocated increased spending at the Federal Bureau of Investigations and DOJ — even after its many abuses under Garland (including the Mar-a-Lago raid) — tanked the campaigns of more conservative candidates, and offered a full-throated endorsement of FISA.

Though there are too many to name, McConnell’s betrayals go even further, including tacit endorsement of Trump’s impeachment, stabbing pro-life Americans in the back by opposing Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., in his blockade of military promotions, and getting “rich on China,” as The Federalist’s Tristan Justice wrote.

Senate Republicans do not seem prepared to change their tune after McConnell stepped down from leadership. Last month, they gave McConnell the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, allowing him to continue to advocate for Ukraine and other foreign spending.

Republicans also coronated the next-in-line carbon copy of McConnell in Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to be the majority leader.

Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.