It should probably come as no surprise that a man who divided opinion so much in life would continue to do so in death. While tributes have poured in from across the political divide in remembrance of senator John McCain, who died on Saturday evening, a backlash of equal emotional magnitude has also inevitably played out.
Some of it is indisputably fair. McCain’s history of supporting the use American military power around the world earned him the reputation of being the neo-conservative’s neo-conservative. But McCain was a complicated man and is far from the caricature he is painted out to be by those cynically mocking his death for Twitter clicks.
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