This is a genuine quote from Sen. Lindsey Graham. He tweeted it on May 3, 2016.
While most Republicans fell in line before the 2016 election, Lindsey Graham -- along with fellow senators Mike Lee, Ben Sasse, John McCain, and Rob Portman -- was a high-profile NeverTrumper on Election Day."My party has gone batshit crazy," Graham said in a February 2016 speech about Trump. Graham told Fox News that Trump is"a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit to be president.
But sometime after the election, Graham became a neo-Trumper."You know what concerns me about the American press is this endless, endless attempt to label the president some kind of kook," Graham said in November 2017."I intend to support him in 2020 without equivocation," Graham tells me now. What changed since 2016? A neoconservative, in Irving Kristol's famous formulation, was a liberal who'd been mugged by reality. Neo-Trumpers like Graham, then, are NeverTrumpers who were mugged by—what, exactly? Necessity? Expediency? Sean Hannity?
To hear Graham tell it, policy is what changed his mind."He's on track to do big things," Graham says of the president."He built up the military. I campaigned on it. He got out of the Iran deal. I campaigned on it. He's destroying ISIL. I campaigned on it. He's restructuring the tax code and the way we do business. I campaigned on it. He's doing much of what I campaigned on, and I'm pleased.
What about the issues of temperament that in 2016 made Trump, in Graham's view, unfit to be president? Is there anything specific, I ask, that has convinced the senator that Trump isn't the"kook" Graham called him back then?"One, I got to know him," Graham says."I've played golf with him. You know, play golf with somebody for three or four hours, you get to know them better. He's funny as hell. He's got a great sense of humor.
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