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Mitch McConnell is still alive, but our knowing that was subject to a weekslong filibuster. At least for the moment, the aging Kentucky senator’s “proof of life” photo from his hospital bed is a kind of avatar for an era in which our elderly leaders are clinging to power by any means necessary. Behind that, though, is more than a social or political problem: It’s a spiritual crisis few of us want to acknowledge.
After an ambulance took McConnell to the hospital, even some people not normally given to conspiracy theories wondered if he was secretly
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