Many people become more reflective and decent when they realize that the end is near. McCain just seems to be getting even more petty and vindictive in his final days than he was before.
You’re right. McCain does seem to be getting more petty and vindictive—who even knew that was possible? He was pretty spiteful toward Trump all along.
Perhaps he will mellow as time passes. Right now he still seems to be in denial. He appears to believe the brain cancer can be beaten.
Once the inevitable course of the disease becomes undeniable, we may see a shift toward magnanimity. For McCain’s sake we can hope so, anyway.
Like Captain Queeg of the Caine Mutiny, John McCain is losing it, interested only on the strawberries, and fumbling those three balls around his fingers....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LR2okL8YM
Yes, one would think that, facing eternity, he would shrink from promoting rank blasphemy. I shudder to think of the terror that awaits him on the other side.