A hawk who flew on political winds: Lindsey Graham

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  The Economist

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, a glimpse into the values that frontier AI models hold

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  and the new enthusiasm for the Old Masters.

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  But first,

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  Since 2003, Lindsey Graham held a Senate seat in South Carolina

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  and was cruising to another term in November.

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  But early on Sunday, Mr. Graham's office announced he had died suddenly at age 71.

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  Many words have been used to describe him over his long congressional tenure,

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  perhaps the most consistent being hawkish.

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  He was a power broker, stalwart committee member, a man who had the ear of presidents

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  and the trust even of the Democrats he railed against.

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  A Southern Republican of the old kind and, more recently, of the new one.

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  Lindsey Graham represented how the Republican Party has shifted over the course of a couple of decades

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  from being a party of the 20th century that was looking to some extent to be moderate

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  and to cooperate with the Democrats

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  to a party that is really quite radical and quite on its own.

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  Adam Roberts is our foreign editor.

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  So, the surprising news that Lindsey Graham had died

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