@joshtpm thoroughly enjoyed your piece on McCain.
One thing that strikes me: while McCain was ultimately a conservative Republican at heart, he was also fundamentally a pluralist, who talked frequently about bringing divides.
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His concession speech and final letter both talked, as Obama did, about the ways in which zero-sum outcomes are less inevitable than we think. Lots of people take a cynical view to that kind of politics, but it's not about compromise or the mushy middle.
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It's about sitting down with people who don't seem to share our axioms to see if we can find win-win solutions anyway. And I think that McCain shared these sentiments in a political system that increasingly seems rooted in zero-sum conflicts.
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