{"id":23861,"date":"2021-03-08T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:27:56","slug":"sen-graham-apparently-having-seen-no-fantasy-movies-ever-says-he-deals-with-trumps-dark-side-to-harness-the-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=23861","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Graham, apparently having seen no fantasy movies ever, says he deals with Trump&#8217;s &#8220;dark side&#8221; to &#8220;harness the magic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/lindsey-graham-trump-destroy-republican-party-613ce2af-8914-4764-9492-80a8424c628c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>: &#8220;Sen. Lindsey Graham told &#8220;Axios on HBO&#8221; that Donald Trump has a &#8220;dark side&#8221; but he tries to &#8220;harness the magic&#8221; because he succeeded where Republican candidates like John McCain and Mitt Romney failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>&nbsp;The South Carolina Republican&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/25\/magazine\/lindsey-graham-what-happened-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gyrates between support and criticism<\/a>&nbsp;of the former president, even after Trump harshly criticized McCain \u2014 Graham&#8217;s longtime friend \u2014 and helped spark the Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;What I&#8217;m tryin&#8217; to do is just harness the magic,&#8221; Graham told Axios&#8217; Jonathan Swan. &#8220;To me, Donald Trump is sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum.&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;He could make the Republican Party something that nobody else I know can make it. He can make it bigger. He can make it stronger. He can make it more diverse. And he also could destroy it,&#8221; Graham said.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios: &#8220;Sen. Lindsey Graham told &#8220;Axios on HBO&#8221; that Donald Trump has a &#8220;dark side&#8221; but he tries to &#8220;harness the magic&#8221; because he succeeded where Republican candidates like John McCain and Mitt Romney failed. Why it matters:&nbsp;The South Carolina Republican&nbsp;gyrates between support and criticism&nbsp;of the former president, even after Trump harshly criticized McCain \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23862,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions\/23862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}