I am so glad he will not use his power as a senator to cause the kinds of harm he has engaged in over the last 20 years.
But I’m not rejoicing that he died. I’m rejoicing that the seat he used to send us further into war, to gut aid for the vulnerable, to go harder on immigrants, is open again. I wish he’d stepped down long ago.
People keep replying to that video with “so you mean hate the sin, love the sinner.” No. That phrase leaves room to excuse cruelty, pretending to love the person committing it.
What I said is that Lindsey Graham, just like all of us, was a child of God, a beloved human being, held in the love and mercy of God. This doesn’t make him special; it just makes him human.
But that’s not really the question, which is whether the people we send to Washington use their power for the common good or against it.
South Carolina’s governor gets to appoint someone to fill that seat until voters decide for themselves in November. That’s our shot. That seat can go to someone who actually serves the people of this nation.
We can flip the House and the Senate for the common good. Let’s get to work.
We will all pass on from this life, and we can use our lives for goodness or harm, for the common good, or for privileging only some. This is true for politicians and for all of us.
I’m so glad to be in this goodness work with you. Let’s take the work all the way through Election Day, and onward.
In this together,
Doug
