Americans woke up this morning to some unexpected news: notorious Senate partisan Lindsey Graham has died of what is so far being described as a "brief and sudden illness." And then, just as quickly, Americans apparently moved onāor at least the person who he so valiantly shilled for over the last decade did.
"I have somebody that I think would be great," Donald Trump told NBC's Meet The Press even before Graham's body had cooled.
Aaron Rupar
That is not to say Trump, whose boots Graham polished at every available opportunity, did not feel some grief at the news. "This is a big blow to the SAVE America Act," Trump groused.
Lindsey Graham was a fixture of Republican politics, representing South Carolina as a senator for over two decades. He will be remembered primarily for his fierce advocacy for bombing whatever country had last earned the United States' ire, regularly appearing in front of cameras to argue that nearly all foreign policy difficulties could be solved via state-sponsored mass murder campaigns.
But Graham was more consequential in his domestic advocacy. He pushed election conspiracies after Trump's 2020 election loss and attempted to intervene in Georgia's recount that year, calling up Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to propose throwing out all mail-in ballots in counties with higher rates of signature errors. After a brief break with Trump in the hours after Trump sent a violent mob to hunt down him and other attendees at the joint session of Congress convened to ratify Joe Biden's electoral win, Graham voted "not guilty" in the Senate impeachment trial that stemmed from that violence.
He went on to back Trump in the 2024 election, despite the insurrection, Trump's 34 felony convictions, and Trump's theft of highly classified national security documents.
Prior to becoming a devoted Trump sycophant, Graham was famous for his 2016 opposition to Trump. "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it" he tweeted during that year's Republican primaries.
Ron Filipkowski
By the time of Graham's reversal, he had already become something of a scientific oddity as well. After longtime ally Sen. John McCain died in 2008, biologists were astonished by Graham's survival even after the death of his host organismāan outcome deemed particularly unusual in Washington, D.C.'s harsh ecosystem.
Graham is survived by his last host organism, the traitorous Donald Trump; by an incompetent and hyper partisan Supreme Court of his own making; and by the numerous ongoing international crises he supported or helped bring about. He will likely not be mentioned again after the Senate's performative period of grieving has come to an end.
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