NYT Edit: Straining to Keep Faith With America - John McCain knew that we are better than Trump.
By Bret Stephens
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I’ve been thinking a lot about that line, “straining to keep faith with their country,” in the days since McCain died. Few Americans will ever have the misfortune — McCain would have called it the honor — of keeping faith in circumstances as dire as the ones he faced.
Yet many people, at home and abroad, are straining nonetheless.
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They strain to keep faith when the president rains scorn on our closest allies at summits in Canada and Belgium, and follows each performance with epic displays of obsequiousness toward a North Korean mass murderer and a Russian assassin.
They strain to keep faith when the vice president publicly walks out of a football stadium because players bend a knee in silent protest of racial injustice just two months after the president loudly defended white nationalists at Charlottesville as “some very fine people.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opinion/mccain-america.html
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