Just as John Lewis can be viewed as a sort of left-wing version of John McCain, McCain’s funeral should be treated as a template for Lewis’. Obama should speak, the virtues of liberal democracy should be extolled, and there should be plenty of references to America and the arc of history. It should look like a pep rally for the blue team. Above all, the speakers should connect the dots between the struggles of the sixties and today. The opponents of the civil rights movement in the sixties are the same kind of people who are running commercials attacking rioters and celebrating “law and order.” That needs to be put in its proper historical perspective.