• atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      12 hours ago

      Careful what you wish for - younger conservatives have been crazier and have entered politics or grew up in an era where Trump was a politician. At least Graham and other remember a time when the government wasn’t a completely corrupted personal project of the president.

      Things can always get worse.

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        11 hours ago

        At least Graham and other remember a time when the government wasn’t a completely corrupted personal project of the president.

        And yet he ignored all that.

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        11 hours ago

        Graham was the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, he (along with McConnell, who was majority leader at the time) was directly responsible for the Republican takeover of the SCOTUS. Merrick Garland never got a confirmation vote because Graham never scheduled hearings. He made up some bullshit excuses for that, and then when RBG passed, he made some bullshit excuses to do a total 180 and get that pick approved before Trump left office.

        He is just as responsible for the state of things today as Mitch was.