It was always the Commie objective to get control of BOTH US political parties if possible. I think it is highly probable that McCain was brainwashed in North Vietnam. He is likely the “Manchurian Candidate”. That was the only way the Commies could get hold of both parties. Have their own creations as candidates for the same election.
You hear various stories about McCain as a POW, and it’s hard to know what to believe.
What we do know, however, is that later on, he became chair of the POW/MIA committee in the Senate and used his position and his status as a war hero to betray his fellow POW/MIAs in order to open the door to relations with the Communist North Vietnamese regime.
Without McCain leading the way and giving his seal of approval, it is doubtful that it could have been done. I’ve always thought that that was the single worst thing McCain ever did.