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    Commentary: What we lost in John McCain

    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Aug 26, 2018 3 minutes

    We are mourning Sen. John McCain this week - most of us, at least - and well we should. But what exactly are we mourning? Why do we feel a sense of loss?

    It's not that McCain's politics were universally popular; far from it. Democrats enjoyed his bouts of rebelliousness, but he was never really on their side; he was always a conservative and a hawk. Many Republicans distrusted him; by the end of his life, his party's pro-Trump base considered him an apostate.

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