It’s very simple.
McConnell, for all his (manymanymanymany…) faults, blocked Mary Garland, the current Attorney General who transitioned to a full-of-retribution petulant 14-year old girl, from getting in SCOTUS.
You can draw a very bright line from that action to the repeal of Roe, the NY State 2nd Amendment ruling, and the EPA defanging cases from last term.
I agree. On the other hand, give Schumer 50 votes and three Supreme Court vacancies, and he will jam through three unapologetic communists without any chance of losing a single vote. We were biting our fingernails off with 52-53 votes.
Unfortunately, Mitch also stood by while at least a DOZEN (and maybe 15) Senate seats were stolen by the Demonrats just since 2018. The GOP should have at least 60-63 seats in the body.
A real Senate leader would’ve challenged and had each and every race thoroughly investigated for fraud and chicanery. Not a single race was called to be investigated by McConnell. He’d prefer to serve as Minority Leader over a bunch of puppet loyalists than allow any “outsider” Republicans to win and threaten his power.
To wit (installed Senator vs. actual winner):
AK - Lisa Murkowski (Dem-RINO) (2022 - won by Kelly Tshibaka)
AZ - Mark Kelly (2020 - won by Martha McSally & 2022 - won by Blake Masters)
AZ - Kyrsten Sinema (2018 - also won by McSally)
CO - John Hickenlooper (2020 - (probably) won by Cory Gardner)
GA - Jon Ossoff (2020 - won by David Perdue)
GA - Raphael Warnock (2020 - won by Kelly Loeffler; 2022 - won by Herschel Walker)
MI - Debbie Stabenow (2018 - won by John James)
MI - Gary Peters (2020 - also won by John James)
MN - Tina Peters (2020 - won by Jason Lewis)
MT - Jon Tester (2018 - won by Matt Rosendale)
NV - Jackie Rosen (2018 - won by Dean Heller)
NV - Catherine Matso (2022 - won by Adam Paul Laxalt)
NH - Maggie Hassan (2022 - won by Don Bolduc)
NM - Ben Ray Lujan (2020 - won by Mark Ronchetti)
PA - John K. Fetterman (2022 - won by Mehmet Oz)
Not counting dubious other results in Dem-controlled states as well.