Adam Roberts
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Lindsey Graham represented how the Republican Party has shifted over the course of a couple of decades from being a party of the 20th century that was looking to some extent to be moderate and to cooperate with the Democrats to a party that is really quite radical and quite on its own.
Adam Roberts is our foreign editor.
So the surprising news that Lindsey Graham had died throws a spanner in the works for quite a lot of interesting foreign policy reasons.
So if you look at the situation in Ukraine and Israel, this will have ramifications.
Lindsey Graham was a long-serving politician.
He began as a member of the House of Representatives, did four terms there, and then became a very long-serving senator.
He had been a military man.
He'd been a lawyer who had served short stints even when he was a politician in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And I think that would color the views he took in foreign policy later on as well.
Well, the pivotal turning point was the Trump election in 2015, 2016.
When Donald Trump came down the escalator and first appeared on the Republican political scene, Lindsey Graham had no time for him at all.
He saw him as a very hostile force, someone who was not good for the party, not good for America, and was very outspoken in saying that he should be shunned and should be pushed into history.
When Donald Trump proved to be electorally successful and was able to consolidate power, then Lindsey Graham discovered that what he really wanted was influence and therefore pivoted and became one of the most stalwart supporters of Donald Trump.
Following his death, Donald Trump, who generally was very affectionate towards Lindsey Graham, Graham was a funny man.
He was a good conversationalist and a very skilled golfer who apparently was very careful to always lose to Donald Trump.
Trump was very straightforward in his sorrow that Lindsey Graham had died.
Lindsey Graham's philosophy when it came to foreign policy was that you should intervene.
You should not be America first and defensive.
You should be reaching out, intervening in the world because it's a lot cheaper.
It's a lot smarter to reach out and intervene early on and confront your enemies than let them get stronger and confront you at home.
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