The same people who told you that Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn't qualified to sit on the US Supreme Court are totally fine with lindsey graham's sister being senator because she's lindsey graham's sister.
They got rid of DEI to hire people based on merit then turn around and hired lindsey graham's sister for senator simply because she's lindsey graham's sister.
MAGA:
2016 was fair! (Obama was President)
2020 was rigged! (Trump was President)
2024 was fair! (Biden was President)
They’re going to rig 2026! (Trump is President)
Why is Donald Trump so fucking bad at securing elections according to MAGA?
republicans in 2024: “kamala can’t just take joe biden’s place in the election. nobody voted for her. that’s not democracy.”
republicans now: “it’s totally fine that lindsey graham’s sister is taking his place.”
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.