Mitch McConnell has finally returned to the US Senate after what sounds like a truly miserable summer. The 84-year-old senator was absent from the Senate from mid-June, and there were weeks of silence and speculation before his office finally explained that he’d suffered a fall at home that left him “briefly unconscious”.
That was followed by a “mild case” of pneumonia, and the subsequent lack of information was because, as McConnell put it, “folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older”.
