How does referring to African Americans as distinct from all Americans “bring us together,” Senator McConnell?

The GOP’s leading obstructionist and spin-master slipped on Wednesday.

Every now and then, a politician speaks the truth by accident. The columnist Michael Kinsley wrote years ago, “It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile, a gaffe, it has been said, is when a politician tells the truth — or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when the spin breaks down.”

This past Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, said something truthful about what goes on in his head. At a news conference explaining his party’s opposition to legislation that would have create national standards for voting rights and rolled back new restrictions that Democrats say are targeted at suppressing the votes of minorities, McConnell trotted out an argument he has been making for months, but with a revealing twist.