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.
@JamesTate121 It is every day, all under the guise of making everything great while taking a wrecking ball to the East Wing, JFK Center, Reflecting Pool, Ellipse, White House front yard. While using social media to bleat about world matters as if it was Taco Tuesday. WAKE UP AMERICA
@marctshort It would be really helpful if you @marctshort spoke up more about what a disaster this MOU is. You have a platform. (And "don't both sides" it, this is a legit capitulation) So tired of the GOP remaining silent during this complete upheaval of normalcy.