The Tributes Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Lindsey Graham

acknowledged their many disagreements without hesitation, then said he never doubted Graham’s love of country. Kyrsten Sinema wrote that he would “hug and fight you, all within ten minutes on the floor” — and noted that the Three Amigos are back together, which is the most Graham thing anyone said all weekend.

That’s the measure of a life in public service. Not the bills alone, not the votes alone, but whether the people on the other side of every fight remember you as a human being when it’s over.

The ghouls who spent Sunday celebrating his death never met him. Never worked with him. Never sat across a table from him