The beatification of John McCain began a long time ago, but it’s poised to kick into overdrive now that the man has died at age 81. There will be a great many more things named in his honor: schools, statues, Federal buildings, battleships; McCain appropriated so much money for wars that we’ll be able to name a whole fleet after him. Maybe McCain will get his own national holiday, hopefully not too close to Martin Luther King Day. All through his career as a Senator, McCain represented a fairy tale ideal of bipartisanship that never quite matched his politics, but it’s clear that the myth of John McCain will long outlast any of those nasty little inconveniences.
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