Joy Reid goes on vile tirade about Lindsey Graham after GOP senator’s sudden death at 71

Lindsey Graham is barely cold and Joy Reid is out there talking about him meeting the devil. That's not commentary, that's a gloat dressed up as a joke about a man's death. You can spend twenty years disagreeing with Graham on Iraq, on judges, on his flip from McCain guy to Trump guy and back again. Fine. That's politics. But "you sold your soul to the devil, and now you get to meet him in person" isn't a policy critique. It's a cackle over a fresh grave.

What's telling is how normal this has become on the left when it's a Republican who dies. Imagine the network meltdown if a conservative pundit said anything close to this about a Democratic senator hours after his family got the news. There would be statements, apologies demanded, maybe a suspension. When it goes the other direction, it gets shrugged off as "spicy" or "unfiltered," like cruelty is just a personality trait we're supposed to find endearing.

Graham had a family, staff, friends, people who are grieving him right now regardless of how you rate his voting record. Basic decency used to mean you waited more than a news cycle before turning a man's death into a punchline. That standard didn't used to be partisan. It shouldn't be now.

None of this requires anyone to pretend Graham was above criticism in life. He wasn't, and plenty of people on the right had their own gripes with him too. But there's a difference between honest disagreement and dancing on someone's coffin for content. Reid picked the second option, on camera, with her name attached. That's her choice to make. It's also fair for the rest of us to notice exactly what kind of choice it was.