Reporting on John McCain’s funeral, The Wall Street Journal noted that former presidents Bush and Obama had called McCain “a model of enduring American virtue.” McCain has been widely lauded for his patriotism, his sense of honor, dignity and decency. He was widely praised for his love of bipartisanship. But then, how did it happen that his funeral, which he orchestrated, became defiled by Trump bashing? After all, McCain pointedly excluded the President of the United States from his funeral ceremonies. And then, speakers from Meghan McCain to Barack Obama to George W. Bush notably took up his invitation to trash Donald Trump. Susan Glasser captured the tone for The New Yorker: Donald Trump’s name was never mentioned. It didn’t have to be. The funeral service for John Sidney McCain III, at the Washington National Cathedral, on this swampy Saturday morning, was all about a rebuke to the pointedly uninvited current President of the United States, which was exactly how McCain had planned it. Of course, there were fulsome tributes to Senator McCain’s bravery and courage and public service, stark reminders of the torture he endured as a prisoner of war, and of the policies he fought for (and against) in his many decades as a Republican politician from Arizona. But McCain knew that would not be the headline from the grand service, whose many details he personally oversaw. This was to be no mere laying to rest of a Washington wise man,
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