MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday pointed out how being a supporter of President Donald Trump now “requires a never-before-seen-in-politics superhuman ability to manage personal, public, deep humiliation.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is one such “case study in deep personal humiliation,” he argued.
Graham fiercely condemned Trump before his surprise 2016 election win, only to become one of his most vocal supporters. He broke briefly with Trump following the deadly U.S. Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, but soon returned to being one of his most devout allies.
O’Donnell noted how late night host Jimmy Kimmel “now says that Lindsey Graham is now the closest Donald Trump has come to owning a dog.”
“Five years ago today [after the Capitol attack], Lindsey Graham summoned the courage to break with Donald Trump for the first time since he had become Donald Trump’s pet,” O’Donnell recalled.
But “enough was not enough,” as Graham had claimed, said O’Donnell, who explained how the lawmaker soon fell back in line.