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...It’s the feckless indifference to constitutional norms displayed by both inciters and enablers, the replacement of principled by performative politics, that has profoundly unsettled longtime ideological...
...As the novel begins he’s in Arizona at a Republican soirée, with his wife Charlotte and their daughter Meghan, waiting to hear whether John McCain has lost the election....
...When Biden was vice-president, Norm Ornstein, a veteran Congressional watcher, lost his son in a tragic accident....
...Norms provide certainty amid otherwise dangerous chaos. Nowhere are the military’s norms more pronounced than in its rituals....
...Yet Doug Holtz-Eakin, who advised the late John McCain’s presidential campaign, said the post-crisis experience had been a salutary one for conservatives....
...Arizona’s John McCain is fighting illness. The hope must be that November returns more men and women of such independent mind, and fewer in the mould of Mr Nunes....
...Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said: “With McCain you have a senior, respected figure whose criticism of the president resonates more than most others....
...Mr Zuckerberg said in 2010 that “social norms” around privacy were changing. When the social network began to try to generate revenue, it realised that user data were its treasure....
...John McCain, the Republican head of the Senate armed services committee, praised the move, saying Mr Trump had “confronted a pivotal moment in Syria and took action”....
...For now, however, only a handful of Republicans are openly critical of the president, including senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Ben Sasse and Jeff Flake....
...addition to holding Russia accountable for what it has done, the United States and friends and allies around the world must work together to oppose Russia’s efforts to undermine established international norms...
...Instead, the most common form of rebellion occurs when people drag their feet in the face of cultural norms — or furtively opt out of official demands....
...Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the right-of-centre American Enterprise Institute, said the controversy had left the GOP in a “terrible place”....
...Sarah Palin’s surprise appearance on Mr McCain’s ticket in 2008 overshadowed his primetime moment. It also transformed the character of his campaign....
...While John McCain’s health was an issue in the 2008 race — some polls found that one-third of voters said they believed the then-72-year-old was too old to run — most of the conversation focused on the 25...
...Norm Ornstein, a politics expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said Mrs Clinton would be wise to stay above the fray to look presidential....
...How on earth will Trump sell all this to Russia hawks in the Republican Party such as John McCain, the chair of the armed services committee?...
...He has ridiculed Senator John McCain’s ordeal as a prisoner of war. He has likened Mr Carson to a child molester with pathological tendencies. And last week he mocked a reporter with a disability....
...“The president does not understand that this is a manifestation of a new form of warfare,” said Arizona senator John McCain, who was also speaking in an interview on CNN....
...John McCain, a leading Republican senator who met Mr Obama on Monday, said the president had assured him weapons would now start flowing to the Syrian opposition....
...In Missouri, which voted for every president but two from 1904 to 2008, centrist “Truman Democrats” are the norm....
...Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 campaign manager, reckons the candidates and their parties’ committees will raise about $1bn each for 2012, compared with a collective $1.3bn four years ago....
...“There is zero chance of scrapping or amending the 14th amendment,” says Norm Ornstein at the conservative American Enterprise Institute....
...Mr McCain’s was to have once been a moderate on immigration....
...John McCain lost. So when does a leader require a sick note?...
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