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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is worried his own party will repeat mistakes from the 1930s — and warned about it in an opinion piece Thursday in The New York Times.

McConnell — who endorsed former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign in March — kicked off his piece lamenting that Europe and the United States met a "militant authoritarian with appeasement or naïve neglect" in the '30s, and said today America and its allies face "some of the gravest threats to our security since Axis forces marched across Europe and the Pacific."

While he made no mention that Trump's own rhetoric has raised alarm bells and been compared to that of authoritarian governments — as recently as this week — McConnell said some of those same forces that derailed a response in the 1930s have returned....

In the wake of a controversy over a requirement that religious institutions provide contraceptive coverage, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) now supports a bill that gives any employer the right to exclude any type health service that they find objectionable.