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Lindsey Graham Fears His Own Ides of March - And Thus He’s All In On Trump

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Joshua Powell
Aug 20, 2025
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In the blood sport of Washington politics, where allegiances shift like sand and principles dissolve faster than sugar in rain, few conversions have been as spectacularly complete—or as mysteriously sudden—as Lindsey Graham's transformation from Donald Trump's most savage critic to his most slavish devotee. The metamorphosis was so swift, so absolute, that you could practically set your watch by it: March 2017, after a private tête-à-tête with the newly installed president.

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