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Lindsey Graham Doesn’t Want a Primary

A parlor game has begun to explain the South Carolina senator’s volcanic anger over the Kavanaugh nomination and his embrace of the president.
Source: Michael Reynolds / Reuters

The smoke from the Brett Kavanaugh war is beginning to dissipate, but Lindsey Graham is still smoldering. On Fox News Sunday, the South Carolina senator declared, “I’ve never been so pissed in my life.” He denounced the sexual-assault allegations leveled against Kavanaugh as “McCarthyism,” vowed to stump this fall against Democrats as payback, and announced that he would spend Sunday golfing again with his pal President Donald Trump—the same man he formerly dismissed as a demagogic misogynist. Graham warned his fellow Republicans in 2015, “The way that he attacks women is going to be a death blow to the future of our party.”

But now that on behalf of beleaguered men—“I am a single white male from South Carolina, and I’m told I should shut up, but

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