Graham just played golf with Trump—good move.
Here is something else he said today:
MAJOR GARRETT: What I hear you saying Senator is 2018 is the year of preemptive strikes?
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: 2018 is going to the year to deny North Korea the capability to hit the homeland. Sanctions will never work completely without the threat of credible military force. How do you change a man's behavior who's willing to kill his own family, torture his own people to stay in power? He's living large and he could care less us about his people. The only way he will change his behavior if he beliefs Donald Trump would use military force to destroy his regime and the Iranians are watching how Trump deals with North Korea. You'll ask me in a minute how my relationship has evolved with the President. It's evolved because he is President of the United States, he beat me like a drum and I want to help him where I can because there's a lot on this man's plate. And we should all want to help him.
Stategically, Graham has to trim his sails now that his bestest girlfried, John McCain, is on his way out.