The Cold Revenge of John McCain
As Trump’s legal efforts to audit the 2020 election continue, Arizona officials prove particularly antagonistic to his efforts.
In the aftermath of 2020- especially in the aftermath of Election Day 2020, which morphed into Election Week 2020, and has now become Election Month 2020 in a world where Election Quarter 2020 doesn’t seem impossible-where would the late Senator John McCain have fallen on the Trump scale, had he lived to see it all?
Would McCain have stayed a staunch Never Trumper?
Would the Kavanaugh hearings, that ill-advised effort by Democrats to smear a sitting federal judge as a teenage serial gang rapist, have bonded John McCain together with his fellow Republicans, including, however reluctantly, Donald Trump?
Many high-profile, Trump-shy Republicans united behind Trump in the aftermath of that shameful episode in American history. Some did not.
The other thing that endeared Trump to his fellow Republicans, some former Never Trumpers, was the Mueller investigation, and report, together with the unceasing press coverage of the former and almost total abdication to report on the latter.
Would that have softened John McCain towards Trump?
Republicans like Sen. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Paul Ryan haven’t, but…