Donald Trump is an easy target as the worst person in America because he is, as everyone knows, a fucking moron who also appears to be a  traitor. Although, considering that whole “moron” thing, it probably wasn’t intentional. He just fell into it and couldn’t get out. And here we are.

However, the person who is worse is his number one enabler, the Senate Leader Mitch McConnel. Mitch is a piece of work, to say the least. The ultimate obstructionist, he came to true fame as being the lemon juice in Barack Obama’s paper cut for 8 long years.

ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis, the author of a McConnell biography, “The Cynic,” reports former Republican senator Robert Bennett’s account of what McConnell told fellow Republicans after Obama’s election: “Mitch said, ‘We have a new president with an approval rating in the 70 percent area. We do not take him on frontally. We find issues where we can win, and we begin to take him down, one issue at a time. We create an inventory of losses, so it’s Obama lost on this, Obama lost on that.’ ”

And that’s what he did. By 2013, for example, 79 of Obama’s nominees had been blocked by filibusters, compared with 68 in the entire previous history of the Republic.

After Justice Antonin Scalia’s death was confirmed in 2016, it took McConnell less than an hour to say that the vacancy should be filled by the next president. He called keeping Obama’s nominee off the court “one of my proudest moments.” Neil Gorsuch, the supreme court judge that Trump nominated, (although the Heritage Foundation picked him) is young, healthy and slightly to the right of Atilla The Hun.

McConnell is also a sexist prick (recall his “nevertheless, she persisted” silencing of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren). He also has no true moral guide beyond expediency. He shifts his views to suit current exigencies (on the minimum wage, withdrawal from Iraq, earmarks, abortion, labor and civil rights) and excels at screwing up the legislative process: forcing clerks to spend hours reading a bill aloud on the floor; opposing immigration legislation he’d encouraged; asking for a vote on a debt-ceiling proposal and then trying to filibuster it; urging the Obama administration to support a bipartisan debt commission and then voting against it.

While other Republicans have at times been willing to criticize President Trump’s outrages, McConnell has been conspicuously quiet. A neat trick.

McConnell’s track record of disagreeing with Trump but continuing to support him is impressive. In 2015, when Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” McConnell told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “We’re not going to follow that suggests that this particular candidate made.

It would prevent the president of Afghanistan from coming to the United States. The King of Jordan couldn’t come to the United States.” In early 2016, McConnell reportedly laid out a plan for congressional lawmakers to break with Trump—if he became the nominee—in the general election. That effort failed, and McConnell quickly came around, arguing that Trump wouldn’t have much impact one way or the other. “Trump is not going to change the institution,” McConnell said on Hugh Hewitt’s morning radio show, referring to the Republicans. “He’s not going to change the basic philosophy of the party.”

When Trump hesitated before rejecting the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, McConnell stated that “Senate Republicans condemn David Duke, the K.K.K., and his racism”—but he didn’t mention Trump by name. In July, when Trump attacked the Gold Star parents of Captain Humayun Khan, who had been killed in the line of duty, McConnell called Captain Khan an “American hero”—but again didn’t mention Trump.

It’s clear that McConnell sees Trump as a useful idiot who will sign the bills that he puts in front of him. The issue is, there have been no bills. Because beyond everything, Mitch McConnel, while the supreme obstructionist of his time, is also a terrible legislator.

He can’t get anything done because it’s just not in him. And yet he persists, enabling the clown in the Oval Office and doing nothing else.

That makes him worse than Trump. Trump doesn’t know any better because he is a fucking moron. Mitch McConnell knows better and doesn’t do anything about it.

That’s worse.