Lindsey Graham’s Attack on Greta Thunberg Is a Disgrace From a Man With No Moral Standing

Lindsey Graham’s Attack on Greta Thunberg Is a Disgrace From a Man With No Moral Standing

When Senator Lindsey Graham takes cheap shots at Greta Thunberg, he’s not just punching down—he’s revealing everything that’s wrong with the political rot he represents. Greta is a young woman standing up for life on Earth. Graham is a career politician clinging to relevance by ridiculing someone with infinitely more courage and moral clarity than he’s ever shown.

Let’s be clear: Lindsey Graham has no moral authority to speak on anything. This is a man who has bent himself into every possible shape to appease power, from defending insurrectionists to enabling authoritarianism. He is not a voice of reason—he is a symptom of decay. He has demonstrated time and again that he has no consistent ethics, no principled compass, and no shame. And based on ongoing investigations and his behavior surrounding the 2020 election, many Americans rightfully question whether he belongs under a Senate dome or under criminal indictment.

His attempt to smear a climate activist is not just despicable—it’s cowardly. But that’s what bullies do when they feel threatened: they lash out at truth-tellers. Greta Thunberg is a mirror to the failure of his generation, and he can’t bear to look.

History will not be kind to Lindsey Graham—and it will remember Greta Thunberg as the kind of leader he never had the courage to be.