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Lindsey Graham should beware of Trump's 'magic'

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Lindsey Graham should beware of Trump's 'magic'

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3/9/21
A single supporter greeted former President Donald Trump when he returned to Manhattan for the first time since leaving office, per the New York Post. On Monday morning, only about 20 supporters showed up for a rally at the base of Trump Tower. New Yorkers, it seems, have Trump figured out. Sen. Lindsey Graham, on the other hand, not so much. Hours before Trump slipped into the big city almost unnoticed, TV viewers heard Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, struggle to explain why he's so intrigued by the president who encouraged a mob to attack Capitol -- where Graham was at work certifying an election -- on January 6. "There's something about Trump," Graham, told "Axios on HBO." "There's a dark side -- and there's some magic there." Graham used to know this. Appearing on CNN in 2015, he told Alisyn Camerota that Trump was "a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," that didn't represent his party . Nothing that has happened since then has erased the truth Graham spoke. Trump has paraded his dark side ever since he was a misbehaving boy who was sent to military school by his exasperated parents. In adulthood, his boorish egomania grew until he became a race-baiting caricature, leading the so-called "birther" movement that wrongly questioned whether former President Barack Obama was born in America.

What Graham seems to find magical is that despite his many failures, which include not just Trump's defeat at the polls but his failed effort to help the GOP hold onto a Senate majority and his abysmal handling of the pandemic, Trump has a firm grip on millions of GOP voters. Graham is secure in his Senate seat until 2026. He must have learned from his terrible showing when he sought the presidency in 2016 that the White House is not in his future. He claims that his concern now is the future of the Republican Party. To that end he wants to "harness the magic" of Trump. "He can make it [the GOP] bigger. He can make it stronger. He can make it more diverse. And he also could destroy it." That Graham can imagine Trump destroying the Republican Party should make anyone wonder why he would have anything to do with the "dark side" that he considers somehow magical. As he considers committing to the dark side, he might consider that Trump was the first president never to gain 50% support in the Gallup poll, was soundly defeated in 2020, and was impeached -- twice. And if these facts aren't enough to persuade him to turn back to the light, he might reflect on how when Trump, a New York native who became president, went home again, only one person in a city of nearly 8.4 million showed to welcome him.


I think Lindsey Graham is in awe of Donald Trumps dark side because Graham also has a dark side, a dark side which he exposed during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
 
the magic is racism
 
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