Maureen Dowd: McConnell is distancing himself from Trump. Literally.

Washington — At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.Literally.Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy Coney Barrett superspreader event in the Rose Garden or set foot on that 18 acres of magical thinking known as the White House because he could see that the president and his team were courting danger. At 78, the wily Senate majority leader, a polio survivor, wasn’t taking a