How McCain's patriotism can still best Trump's nationalism
The death of Sen. John McCain has elicited an enormous amount of commentary about the differences between the former Navy pilot and POW and the current president of the United States, who received five draft deferments, one of them for "bone spurs," and who once remarked that avoiding getting a sexually transmitted disease was his "personal Vietnam."
Their personal differences are indeed profound, underlining the decline in "old-fashioned" notions of duty,
