Mitch McConnell Explains Brexit Results With a Factually Questionable Soundbite

Soundbite over substance.

“Unelected bureaucrats,” may make for a good soundbite, but it has left us a bit confused.

It was the expression Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used in an interview Sunday with host George Stephanopoulos on This Week when he explained the Brexit results as: “What you saw in England, at least from what I read, is that people got tired of being dictated to by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.”

We would have appreciated more clarity on what exactly McConnell meant by “being dictated to.”

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