Winnipeg Free Press By: Allan LevineNow & then
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After initially dismissing candidate Donald Trump as a “kook” and a “race-baiting religious bigot,” Sen. Lindsey Graham became one of the 45th president’s most tenacious defenders.
You would have to go back to the era of the American Civil War to find a bigger collection of partisan hypocrites and sycophants than the current crop of Republican senators. Other than a select few who have not forsaken their integrity most notably, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Lisa Murkowski the others remain terrified of angering former president Donald Trump and his angry base.