Little more than two weeks ago, Lindsey Graham was a clown and an embarrassment for his abject sucking up to Donald Trump. But on the other, he’d let you in on how extreme and out of this world he understood Trump to be. Was Graham’s flattery and obsequiousness towards Trump, aides wondered, another workaround of an issue Graham had been working around his whole career? The message of Lindsey Graham’s death, then, is a warning about what happens when a man surrenders to his own weakness. Dive deeper into the political legacy of Lindsey Graham by subscribing to Michael Wolff’s HOWL on Substack.