The veteran US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell always seemed a most difficult person. So perhaps he was an exception to your rule about US veteran legislators being all goody goody. I first realised that something bad portended in Washington - towards the end of the Obama administration in 2016. Remember SCOTUS Chief Justice Scalia (I think) who died at the beginning of that year. Republicans, incl. McConnell, had the temerity to refuse to pursue the process of his replacement on the grounds that Obama was nearing the end of his allotted time. So a Court vacancy for almost 12 months. That was truly perverse.
I certainly don’t think veterans are goody goody. It was just an observation that people who have a shared experience tend to bring that with them and that often confers humanising trait. McConnell is a key architect of the unwinding of US democratic norms, as you allude to.
The veteran US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell always seemed a most difficult person. So perhaps he was an exception to your rule about US veteran legislators being all goody goody. I first realised that something bad portended in Washington - towards the end of the Obama administration in 2016. Remember SCOTUS Chief Justice Scalia (I think) who died at the beginning of that year. Republicans, incl. McConnell, had the temerity to refuse to pursue the process of his replacement on the grounds that Obama was nearing the end of his allotted time. So a Court vacancy for almost 12 months. That was truly perverse.
I certainly don’t think veterans are goody goody. It was just an observation that people who have a shared experience tend to bring that with them and that often confers humanising trait. McConnell is a key architect of the unwinding of US democratic norms, as you allude to.