In recent weeks, scores of Daily Kos diaries have pontificated on Lindsey Graham’s (R-South Carolina) apparently turnaround. He’s stopped beating up on Trump, and encouraged stonewalling of the Russian investigations.
Dozens of comments in these diaries have immediately harped on the theme that Graham is a closeted gay man, so obviously Trump/Russians/Bannon/etc. are blackmailing him. The unstated theme is Graham, a military veteran, is a weak willed, spineless, fay, wimpy blackmail-able fag, right out of a 50’s political potboiler (see Advise and Consent), who’d trade his political positions for the continued secrecy to practice the sin that dare not speak its name.
I object to this entire line of insinuation. It assumes that lack of moral fiber is somehow connected to being gay.
And not a single person on Daily Kos or elsewhere who has sneeringly libeled Graham has a single shred of proof, either way, on Graham’s sexuality. So these insinuations are total baloney of which no one likely had any personal knowledge. Those comments on this subject add absolutely no new information on this sordid topic.
Too many commenters have also jumped on this topic to air what could be their own thinly veiled homophobic feelings, referring to “Auntie” Graham and worse.
Or commenting on closeted homosexuality in Nazi Germany in a diary on Graham. Oh? Why mention it at all? Maybe Graham’s a Nazi too? Cut it out!
I’d rather not flag my way through these too-clever-by-half-insinuations and plain lies about Graham.
I consider his new participation in thwarting the Russian investigations to be deplorable, but efforts to link to his sexuality or lack of it, are not worthy of being featured in a Daily Kos comment, absent a particle of evidence.
Please think over what you want to say on this charged topic.