President Trump disses the memory of Sen. John McCain and many disapprove, citing McCain’s war hero status. Let’s be clear, McCain was a Navy pilot, a prisoner of war, and by all accounts served honorably and with valor.
If we have trouble with McCain, it is his subsequent career as a politician that troubles us. He was a failed presidential candidate, and a cantankerous Senator who resented Trump succeeding where he had failed.
McCain did whatever he could to stymie Trump, the elected head of his own party. It is possible to take a good ‘brand’ and tarnish it. McCain is a textbook case of that self-destructive behavior.
