To be redeemed, you have to want redemption. But before that, you have to suffer loss and McConnell hasn’t suffered loss in this election.
In the previous two elections, McConnell quietly blocked non-GOPe candidates by holding back funds through his PAC. He would deny it or ignore questions and that was that. Comes 2022 with Trump taking a direct role in every high profile Senate race with non-GOPe candidates, McConnell now isn’t quiet. He actively blocks them by questioning their quality and refuses to give them money while throwing millions to his toadie Murkowski in Alaska.
McConnell literally says my power is such that I’m going to prevent the Republican party from taking over the Senate and me becoming majority leader and not only is there nothing anyone can do about it especially Donald Trump, but I’m still going to lead the Republicans in the Senate when I’m done.
That isn’t someone who suffered loss and certainly isn’t someone looking for redemption.
The hypocrisy is that McConnell didn't care a whit about "quality" in 2014 when he ran racist ads in Mississippi attacking Republican state senator Chris McDaniel when McDaniel forced a run-off against McConnell crony Thad Cochran, who was suffering from early dementia and could no longer serve in office.
McConnell and Cochran's staff kept Cochran in the "basement," so-to-speak, to hide his true condition. When McDaniel did well-enough in the primary to force a run-off, McConnell's PAC appealed to Mississippi Democrats to (illegally) cross-over and vote for Cochran in the run-off by calling McDaniel a racist.
McDaniel eventually lost the run-off election. Cochran resigned his seat four years into his term.
-PJ