Dole's death prompts nostalgia for a bygone era sullied by Trump's GOP

In the Washington Dole leaves behind, GOP leadership's acceptance of this kind of dangerous language is closer to the norm than the "norms" elder statesmen from both parties, including Biden, now pine after. Whether Dole saw it coming or not, he and many others did little stem the tide. That his now famous 2018 salute at the casket of the late former President George H.W. Bush, his political rival for decades, struck such a nerve underscored the complexity of a man who, so unlike Trump in that and other moments, saw fit to support him in two campaigns.