Miles Taylor worked in the first term of Trump. He worked in the Department of Homeland Security and rose to become its Chief of Staff.
In 2018, he wrote an essay in The New York Times titled “I am Part of the Resistance inside the Trump Administration” and signed it “Aninymous.”
He now has a Substack blog called Defiance.
This was his response to Lindsey Graham’s death.
“When his enemies die, Trump stomps on their graves — and we rightly call him a ghoul for it.
“Don’t be like Trump.”
I admire his forbearance.
But I am nonetheless posting commentaries by two people who cannot forgive Senator Graham’s sycophantic embrace of Trump.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
When we evaluate the legacy of a sycophancy that is Lindsey Graham, we are not joining Trump in his radical demonization of the departed. Death always stirs a look at legacy. Some will attempt to lionize the departed for their own purposes. Others will demonize similarly. These extremes are different from rational evaluation. Note that those who are not necessarily effusive in their praise of Graham nonetheless admit that he seemed at some point in his career, he seemed to support staunchly some of the ideals associated with one world view of our system. Many of his detractors did not really like his original point of view. When he cursed his original point of view and accepted the Trump mendacity, this was a choice he made. This will be his legacy, no matter who writes the history. He lost, so he sucked up to get power. Pure and simple fact. Unavoidable.
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There are instances where celebrating someone’s death makes sense to me. Some people are so uniquely vicious and destructive that the world is clearly a better place without them. And some victims are owed that kind of catharsis.
But most of the time, the dead are not particularly remarkable people, and the bad things they’ve done would have been done by someone else. No reason to mourn them, but celebrating their death seems like an act of impotence.
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