Meanings
- USderogatorygovernmentU.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Is Moscow Mitch alive? Is he dead? My enlightened centrist take is that both sides are wrong - he is undead!
2026 July 9, u/Guinefort1, “Slowly dragging Apollo's dodgeball towards your general direction”, in r/CuratedTumblr (Reddit post), archived from the original on 09 Jul 20263 more examples
"Moscow Mitch" has acted as a Trojan horse for crony capitalists, allowing them to wield domineering control over our national politics and decision-making. He has been diabolically opposed to fairer political representation and[…]
2016 May 21, Tiffany Twain, Big Picture Perspectives and A Pursuit of Social Activism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16Moscow Mitch won't allow it. The Senate Republican majority leader told us he didn't like that nickname. So in deference, I will not call him that. Even before the House impeachment hearings began, Leningrad Mitch pledged that[…]
2020 May 26, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBNThe efforts earned McConnell the moniker "Moscow Mitch." In September 2019, Sen. McConnell finally agreed to a bill authorizing $250 million for election security. The bill did not require that states use the funds for secure[…]
2021 February 9, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN
Origin
Referring to Mitch McConnell's opposition to sanctions voted by the Senate against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2018.
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Moscow Mitch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Moscow%20Mitch
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