South Carolina conservatives are eager to settle scores with a leading face of Swamp politics.
For MAGA-loving Republicans, South Carolina is shaping up to an ideological battleground. In one corner stands President Donald Trump With his hopes of keeping or growing the GOP majority. In the other is the keen desire to purge the party of deeply unliked incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). While the prospective conflict is unlikely to seriously affect the popularity of the man GOP voters returned to the White House with a rousing mandate, it highlights the problems that come when cold political calculation rubs up against core ideological values.
Graham has held his Senate seat since January 2003. The former sidekick of deceased Trump arch-nemesis Sen. John McCain has somehow managed to make an extremely workable peace with the…
