The awful reality that Donald Trump's attacks on John McCain proves | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
On July 18, 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump said this about John McCain:"He's not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
On March 19, 2019, President Donald Trump offered this assessment of the late war hero and senator:"I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be." .duval-3{width:100%;position: relative; border: 1px solid #979797; border-left: none; border-right: none;padding: 20px 0; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; max-width: 660px;} .duval-3 a{color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: none;font-size: 0;} .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Those two comments -- almost four years apart and more than six months after McCain's death -- provide telling bookends to understand just how much Trump has changed Republican politics , and not for the better.When Trump initially attacked McCain as something less than a war hero in 2015, it was covered as the end of a campaign that never really got started. Trump has been in the race for all of a month. He was still an asterisk in most polling.
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