JOHN McCAIN

This very complex man--often infuriating, sometimes mistaken, always larger than the sum of his courage, beliefs and temper--looks, in retrospect, as one of the great Americans. After his passing, his shadow now dwarfs the current antics going on in this betrayed America.  The political class, which has lost its ways, looks even smaller now after the giant in their midst has left them to their own mediocre devices.