I’m looking at a C-Span video of Sen. Lindsey Graham. It’s 2006, and he’s standing on the Senate floor speaking eloquently. His hair is darker. He’s slimmer.

He sounds like the Lindsey Graham I once thought was a statesman who would forever put country above party, a Lindsey Graham who once got my vote.

He’s talking about the Civil Rights Movement, saying “my life is better” because of it.

“It’s enriched the country,” Graham says. “I’ve got to interact with people in ways that would have been impossible if segregation had stood.”

He’s talking about the reauthorization of the historic Voting Rights Act, a piece of legislation that transformed the United States of America into the democracy it had long proclaimed it was or wanted to be but never quite lived up to that ideal. Just about e

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