As Mitch jettisons any aspirations for higher office.
It wasn’t clear to me from the Weekly Standard piece that he wants to run anyway. But I think that all of the attacks on him for this “truce” thing are misreading what he said. He said truce, not surrender. A truce is a two-way street. Now maybe some folks would like him to stay on the offensive, and that’s fine, but let’s not act like he said he wants to roll over and let the left have its way on social issues.