Hate him all you like, Mitch McConnell is a Hall of Famer - Washington Examiner

Julian Zelizer : Sen. Mitch McConnell is retiring from politics after seven terms.

Zelizer says the Kentuckian was probably the greatest strategist in modern Senate history.

He says McConnell failed to show the proper deference to Donald Trump , who detest him.

Zelizers: McConnell 's mission was to ensure that nothing went smoothly for Democrats .

He said the GOP had conserved nothing, accomplished nothing, and stopped nothing.

Julian Zelizer : An unencumbered Obama would have been the most significant leftist in U.S. history.

Zelizer says McConnell forced Obama to moderate, held every Republican , even ones from Maine who often vote with Democrats , in opposition.

He says McConnell blocked the American Jobs Act bailout, and also the authoritarian card-check bill; he also filibustered the antispeech DISCLOSE Act and minimum wage efforts.