Imagine that you are LIndsey Graham, and you have to choose a GOP candidate for president. Your options are a woman from your home state who agrees with everything you say about American foreign policy, and a guy who wants to leave Ukraine to its fate and withdraw from NATO. You, of course, choose the guy who stands for everything you disagree with. It’s pathetic.
You believe strongly that Ukraine should be protected from Russian imperialism. But when your party tells you that the border is more important and should be traded for aid to Ukraine, you go along without a peep. That’s pathetic, too.
Graham was recently quoted as saying Trump won’t really withdraw from NATO; he’s just using the threat as leverage to force the Europeans to spend more money on defense. Sure, Lindsey. Telling the world you’re just bluffing doesn’t sound like a great negotiating tactic to me, particularly since the Europeans are, in fact, spending more money on defense.
If Trump is elected, he will abandon both Ukraine and NATO, and Graham won’t do a damn thing to stop him. He’ll say a few things in private, and then shut up, just as he always does, because he wants to play golf with the man on golf cart. That’s what is really important to him.