Huckleberry makes a bad bet
by digby
He went golfing with Trump yesterday and they clearly talked about this strategy. He is obviously utterly convinced that in order to get re-elected he has to turn himself into a groveling sycophant on a level that’s actually hard to watch. And he believes that feral Kavanaugh act is going to keep the president in his corner.
I think he’s made the calculation that John McCain got away with saying “build the dang wall” and then retrieved his maverick reputation after his seat was safe so he will too. But Graham has made a serious miscalculation. He will probably keep his seat after which he will try to distance himself from this grotesque display of slavish devotion to the president but it it won’t work. He is not seen as a macho guy like the war hero McCain was. He will never lose the reputation of being a suck-up and a brown-noser and even his constituents will turn on him eventually. He’ll be a symbol of their own misguided love for Trump once all the smoke has cleared. They won’t want to be reminded of it.
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