Paul Waldman has a terrific piece in his "The Cross Section" Substack about why Lindsey Graham and others of his ilk showed us their true selves as principle-free, amoral windsocks seeking power at any cost. Please read his entire piece. Here's the coda:
"Just as Trump awakened in so many Republican voters a barely-suppressed desire to be their worst selves — to be racist, to be sexist, to be obnoxious and cruel and loudly proud of all of it — there’s no reason to think that isn’t true of politicians as well.
Lindsey Graham didn’t lose his way or betray his principles, and neither did Vance, Rubio, or Cruz. The problem isn’t that they abandoned their beliefs. The problem is their beliefs. They showed us who they really are, and if some day in the future they try to convince us that they’ve rediscovered the virtue that had merely lain dormant within them for a while, we’d better not buy it."
We'd better not buy it, indeed.
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