Lindsey Graham completely loses the plot
I’d collect stones, rocks, and seashells when I was a kid. Polishing the rocks until they gleamed was always exciting. So too was holding the ocean-swept shells to my ear. With some of these shells, if I listened, I could hear the sea whispering to me. One of the essential skills to utilize, in my opinion, is the skill of listening. And it is this skill that comes hard for many people, especially politicians. Sometimes said politicians listen only when it is convenient for them. And they hear only the murmurings they want to hear. And the lack of listening can ruin their lives. Take Lindsey Graham.
Graham is an excellent example of someone who closes his ears off to what is often right in front of him. And he chooses to listen to only what he desires — and this is ruining him in ways I suspect he has not even come to be aware of yet.
This past Wednesday, Graham partook in a private luncheon with some of his fellow Republican colleagues. Reportedly, Graham spoke of his seemingly only subject matter — Donald Trump.
Graham reportedly warned his colleagues not to vote with Mitch McConnell to raise the debt limit. His reported reasoning? Donald Trump would be mad. He said Trump would be paying close attention to what they did.
He also criticized McConnell, warning that his colleagues were getting “shot in the back.” His analogy, not mine Let us stop and think about these comments for just one moment.
Graham’s idolization of Trump has reached the point where it isn’t amusing anymore. It is destructive, deeply unhealthy, and has reduced the Senator to a caricature.
There was a time when Graham seemed to be a whole person. He could make his own decisions and stand on his own two feet. Perhaps that was an illusion. But now Graham has tuned from merely being preoccupied with Trump to being wholly consumed by him. Trump would seem to rule Graham with an iron fist.
And it has ruined Lindsey. Graham is in a position to make a difference. At one time, I believe he would have. But now, he stands only in shadows. He is reduced to a pitiful shell who lacks the ability to listen to anyone except the omnipresent bluster of his heinous ruler.
