Graham has always been more than complicit with liars like Trump, not simply as an enabler His dishonesty is in the service of an image of honesty. “Its present meaning is: the assumption of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, with dissimulation of real characters or inclinations.” The hypocrite deceives in order to be perceived as virtuous. According to the classic work Lying, by Sissela Bok, the word “hypocrisy” has its origins in Greek theater, as the slanted reply of an actor to the action on the stage. In British political discourse, a figure like Graham would be described with the seemingly enigmatic phrase of “ reverse ferret”, applied to a politician who takes a dramatic and often contorted U-turn. Worse, in Washington, where the press has treated him for more than 20 years like the genial star of the comedy club, he has become an object of ridicule. His presumed strength has turned into his vulnerability. But just at this consummate moment of his career, events have conspired to dissolve his facade and expose his flagrant hypocrisy. From Graham’s chairmanship of the Senate judiciary committee he has taken up the defense of Trump, to unmask the dastardly conspiracy of “ Obamagate” and to handle the confirmation of a justice on the supreme court, to pack it with a conservative majority for a generation to come. ![]() He succeeded to the seat that Strom Thurmond held for 48 years before he died at 100. Graham has climbed the greasy pole within the Senate, to a position that historically has been rewarded by his state with a lifetime tenure. ![]() Bruised and battered, Graham retreated to his corner, Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, to beg: “I’m getting overwhelmed … help me, they’re killing me money-wise.
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