Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker: John McCain’s Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet
Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter teamed up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s name was never mentioned. It didn’t have to be. The funeral service for John Sidney McCain III, at the Washington National Cathedral, on this swampy Saturday morning, was all about a rebuke to the pointedly uninvited current President of the United States, which was exactly how McCain had planned it.
Of course, there were fulsome tributes to Senator McCain’s bravery and courage and public service, stark reminders of the torture he endured as a prisoner of war, and of the policies he fought for (and against) in his many decades as a Republican politician from Arizona. But McCain knew that would not be the headline from the grand service, whose many details he personally oversaw. This was to be no mere laying to rest of a Washington wise man, nor just another funeral of an elder statesman whose passing would be marked by flowery words about the end of an era. It was a meeting of the Resistance, under vaulted ceilings and stained-glass windows.
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Update: McCain tributes echo with criticism of Trump (AP)
WNU Editor: Using funerals and eulogies to deliver a political message is not acceptable in my book. In every funeral that I have attended, it is God’s love that fills the room, not hate and animus for a person who is not even in attendance. But .... this is what U.S. Senator McCain and his family wanted, and those among America's elite who hate President Trump were more than happy to participate.
