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A unified message to reject the divisive Trump rings loud and clearDo not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. — Sen. John McCain’s final letter In death, John McCain wanted America to remember who we really are. For a few fleeting moments today, we did. We felt whole again. Presidents spoke presidentially. Democrats and Republicans sat next to one another exchanging smiles, laughing at stories about a lost friend. I have no doubt that I was like most Americans in feeling my eyes moisten as everyone in attendance at the National Cathedral sang “America the Beautiful” toward the conclusion of the funeral. And the narcissist-in-chief, who tweeted during the funeral service about our newest, er, enemy (Canada, of course) was banished— out of sight but constantly in the front of minds. Because John McCain’s final wish was to save America from Donald Trump. We knew what McCain intended when he invited George W. Bush, who vanquished him in a bitter 2000 Republican presidential primary, and Democrat Barack Obama in an equally rough 2008 race. He wanted unity, a shared commitment to America that crossed party and ideological lines, a firm rejection of everything Trump stands for. How refreshingly unsurprising it was for Bush and Obama to deliver what McCain wanted and to speak as presidents should. Both former chief executives appealed to an entire nation — not old political bases. Both, without mentioning Trump’s name, appealed not to let our country be torn apart by the man who uses the immigration issue as a racist dog-whistle and who has fecklessly put the interests of Russia and Vladimir Putin ahead of our own. What a powerful message to see these two leaders speak about how McCain was too good and honest a man to resent for long once the slings of a bitter campaign were over. “John’s voice,” Bush said in his tribute, “will always come as a whisper over our shoulder: We’re better than this. America is better than this.”“It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear,” Obama said in a similar tone. “John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that.” I don’t write this to deify McCain and to forget some tragic mistakes. After Trump’s barb that he liked “people who weren’t captured,” the man who was tortured for five-plus years in a North Vietnam prison still endorsed the future president in order to protect his right flank in Arizona’s 2016 senatorial primary (although revoking it after the Access Hollywood tape’s release). McCain never seemed to meet a war he didn’t like as the years went by, either, espousing the disastrous Iraq conflict, a combat role in Syria’s horrific civil war, and providing military aid for Saudi Arabia in its current, brutal aggression against Yemen. He even sang about bombing Iran in a ditty to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann.” John McCain Loved the Military Too Much Most of all, he bears responsibility for bringing Sarah Palin to the national spotlight as his running mate in 2008. Palin set the table for the demagoguery, consipracy-mindedness and racist dog whistles of Trump — think Obama and birtherism — to land in the White House eight years later. McCain never denounced her, though, like Trump, she was conspicuously told to stay away from this morning’s service in Washington. But in McCain’s final missive, he acknowledged his imperfections. He wrote that he hoped that his “love for America will be weighed favorably” against the “mistakes” he made in his life. Full text: John McCain’s farewell statement And indeed, this service reminded us of when he shone ineffably bright. We remembered the 2008 campaign when he told a woman who said she couldn’t trust Obama because he was an “Arab” that the then-senator was a “decent family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.” We remember his dramatic thumbs-down moment to defeat a bill that would have deprived millions of healthcare under Obamacare because, despite his distaste for the law, he knew the move was rushed and wrong. https://ift.tt/2PXw8mY Yes, in his final moments, that’s the McCain we could not help but remember. His maverick courage and his righteous anger was heard in the voice of his daughter, Meghan, who fought through tears to deliver words that sounded like her father’s in speaking truth to power … and eviscerating Trump. “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served,” she said. “The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great,” she added. https://ift.tt/2ND1bTO That line was met with loud, sustained applause in the cathedral. Today, the late senator brought 2,500 men and women together in one cathedral, and more importantly millions more watching on television, to remember that his nation needs more John McCains. And to reject Donald Trump. 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