Loomis’ philippic is of course a bracing corrective to all the cloying panegyrics we’ve seen over the weekend, but I think on the whole that Roy Edroso’s assessment, while relatively unsparing (“McCain was a great advocate of the senseless Iraq War, and a foreign policy belligerent in general; he also foisted on us Sarah Palin, the progenitor of the trend toward wingnut kabuki GOP candidates that got us Trump. And he left a series of fuck-yous to decent democratic governance that persisted right down to the end”), is the more nuanced take.

cordially,