If Graham-Cassidy manages to pass, the only consolation for the rest of us will be that the so-called moderate from South Carolina will be remembered for what he really is: an extremist conservative who helped destroy affordable health care in America,

After so-called moderate Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced the worst Obamacare replacement bill of them all in a last ditched attempt to destroy health care in America, the New Republic's Clio Chang says what we're all thinking:

If Trump’s short presidency has revealed anything, it’s that the moderate Republican congressman does not exist. Graham might feud with Trump over Twitter, but he votes with the president nearly 90 percent of the time. Despite all of his previous misgivings about “process,” Graham still voted for the Better Care Reconciliation Act—the so-called “skinny” repeal bill—that would have uninsured tens of millions of people and that flouted all the Senate’s democratic conventions. And his own bill makes so little policy sense that senators have had to construct elaborate Thelma and Louise metaphors to explain why they’re voting for it.

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Not only that, Chang points out that even when you discount his voting record during the Trump presidency, Graham has never been a moderate, despite portraying himself as one:

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If you look closer, Graham’s fraudulence was always there to see. While he may have voted for Obama’s Supreme Court justices, Graham blamed Democrats for the GOP’s decision to blow up the filibuster in Neil Gorsuch’s nomination, despite the fact that it was Republicans who broke the norm with their unprecedented refusal to consider Obama’s pick, Merrick Garland (Graham held that egregious party line). While he may have voted no on an article of impeachment, Graham also served as a prosecutor for Bill Clinton’s trial. And while he preached bipartisanship during Obama’s tenure, Graham is now threatening to completely rip apart Obamacare, a piece of legislation that was composed of one bipartisan compromise after another, despite the fact that not a single Republican senator ended up voting for it.

If Graham-Cassidy manages to pass, the only consolation for the rest of us will be that the so-called moderate from South Carolina will be remembered for what he really is: an extremist conservative who helped destroy affordable health care in America, and a man who sold his political soul to a the most idiotic president in modern history. Not exactly a legacy to be proud of.