This Election Will Not Look Surprising in History
This striking map from Apple News tells the story of the magnitude of the shift since 2024. The late Lindsey Graham, on Twitter back in May 2016 (punctuation sic ): If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. The wheels of history grind slowly, but they do grind. By the time of his death, Graham was amongst the lickspittlest of Trump’s GOP toadies. Graham’s idiot…
The 2024 election cycle has been marked by stark contrasts and a clear shift in political alignment. Former Senator Lindsey Graham, who once warned against nominating Donald Trump in 2016, found himself among Trump's most loyal supporters in his later years. Graham's sister, too, ran for his late Senate seat but fell short. Liz Cheney, a former Republican representative, delivered a chilling warning to her colleagues at the January 6 hearings, predicting a day when Trump would be gone but their dishonor would remain.
Winston Churchill's dictum about Americans ultimately doing the right thing resonates in this context, while Lincoln's reminder that one cannot fool all the people all the time underscores the electorate's eventual discernment.
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