Can John McCain memorials be a healing moment?
Aug 31, 2018
3 minutes
In his final years, John McCain became an increasingly polarizing figure.
A passionate believer in bipartisanship – in his view, putting country over party – the storied Republican senator from Arizona found himself more and more at odds with the times and with the president of his own party. Even after Senator McCain’s death, his feud with President Trump persisted – as seen both in the senator’s posthumous farewell letter and Mr. Trump’s refusal at first to engage in the rituals of presidential respect for a major public figure.
Most telling, perhaps, were
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