Dear Mitch: Show you care about more than power. Stand up for unemployed Kentuckians.

So if you’ve recovered from the nauseating spectacle of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell eulogizing U.S. Rep. John Lewis, while holding up voting rights legislation that embodied Lewis’ selfless career in civil rights, well, you might want to grab the Pepto Bismol again …

So here’s what McConnell (again, among the most powerful politicians in the U.S.) can do. First, if he’s so worried about the deficit, he can start by rescinding the 2017 tax cuts, which will cost $1.9 trillion over the next decade, and mostly benefited rich people, furthering income inequality in this country. Then he can do something to guide, help, force the White House, with or without President Donald Trump, to formulate some kind of federal response to COVID-19, which is the only thing that will help our economy and put people back to work in the long run.