It’s often the case that a politician’s service is remembered not in the aggregate but in its exceptions. Former Arizona senator John McCain served as a conservative Republican for decades, earning his party’s presidential nomination in 2008. But the legacy for which he’s remembered at the moment is his opposition to former president Donald Trump, also a Republican, and his dramatic thumbs-down vote to submarine Republican efforts to throw out the Affordable Care Act.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Joe Manchin is not going to be a progressive champion
Analysis by Philip Bump
June 9, 2021 at 9:32 a.m. EDT