SIMPLE & QUICK: In a plume of cigarette smoke, Mitch McConnell will disappear in November, leaving a legacy of selling out his constituents, his State, and his party to the biggest foreign buyer

Did you forget that the Federal age restriction on tobacco sales was raised from 18 years of age to 21? That’s okay. The new Federal law was enacted in late December of 2019. For most Americans, this news came and went with little impact. This is not true for the tobacco farmers and considerable number of tobacco smokers in the Great State of Kentucky.

You probably did not forget that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is up for re-election in 2020. His abysmal approval rating is jarring. But for Mitch, a strikingly low approval rating is normal. Kentucky is red enough that she will always elect whoever the Republican candidate is— usually.

For decades, Mitch has been selling out his constituents and his state’s better interests for the financial gain of himself and his pals. He has also actively worked to deny desperately needed Medicaid expansion to poor and unhealthy Kentuckians. But he’s always been like this.

Despite the seemingly widespread popularity of McConnell’s 2018 Farm Bill, it may not be working, and farmers are noticing. Following that with the Majority Leader’s new FDA regulation in the 2019 spending bill will prove to trigger his own base against the Senator. Farmers do want to farm the reup-and-coming cash crop thanks to the Farm Bill, but not when coupling new purchasing restrictions on the original cash-crop. The disruption with tobacco’s transition will prove to further exacerbate falling crop markets dealing with a Republican-incited trade war.

As the votes are cast in the 2020 election, a lot of change will come to America. One of the changes will include a new Democratic senator from Kentucky. In the era of the novel coronavirus chaos, people will assume the ousted senator fell victim to a wave of change. A change election by scared Americans who witnessed a floundering federal response by its leaders— such as the Majority Leader.