Before suspending his campaign in December, Lindsey Graham was a source of relief this presidential election cycle. The South Carolina senator challenged the environmental orthodoxy of his GOP colleagues, affirming that climate change is real, man-made, and something that needs to be addressed. He also took on the heated rhetoric of front-runner Donald Trump, calling him a race bating, xenophobic religious bigot in response to his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the country. Graham brought a modicum of level-headedness to the GOP presidential race. But his recent endorsement…
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The Right’s Governing Problem
It comes as no surprise that the Republican Party has been labeled the party of ‘no’ over the past four years. A party once ruled by established, pragmatic, old school politicians was rocked when Barack Obama cruised into the oval office on what the far right saw as a wave of ultra-liberal ideologies, threatening to destroy the basic foundations of the United States. This fear energized an extreme right wing of the Republican Party into forming a coalition called the Tea Party. As of this current Congressional session, there are…