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Lindsey Graham Gets Torn Apart on Social Media for Cheering on the Idea of a Trump Third Term

What a two-face Graham is.

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Before Donald Trump’s first term in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham was not a fan. In fact, it could be said that Graham was one of the more moderate members of the GOP, for all intents and purposes. He condemned Trump during the 2016 primary campaign, saying “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…. and we will deserve it.”

They may not have gotten “destroyed” in that election, but America is being destroyed now. And it’s largely due to people like Lindsey Graham, once a friend to moderates and even Democrats, enabling Trump’s dictator-like behavior. Graham went from opposing Trump to applauding his every move, from his smirking face all over the internet after Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, to his disgusting border policy, to… Running for a third term?

That’s right, the “joke” that Trump’s become so fond of about running for another term has found its place in Graham’s lexicon as well. After Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last night, he cheered for the off-the-rails president and even teased the idea himself:

As you might imagine, that didn’t go over well.

Even MAGA Republicans commenting on Graham’s post didn’t have anything nice to say. They’re made at Lindsey not for flip-flopping, but for ever having opposed Trump to begin with:

Poor Lindsey Graham can’t catch a break. His detractors are right, though — the midterm election doesn’t see EVERY Senate seat stand for election, but it is his turn. He’s currently on year three of his fourth term in office, and he must see by now that he has to bow and scrape every day to keep Elon Musk from funding a primary opponent.

I think the thing that annoys me the most, however, is that because I’ve been following Graham’s career since he was first elected 22 years ago, I know he’s smarter than this.

That speech wasn’t inspiring, funny, OR compelling, and the Democrats have been having a field day making fun of all the massive blunders that Trump made as he spoke.

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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