McCain and Graham have often behaved like scumbags- it's just that things are so bad right now that they are preferable to the Trump regime. This is an authoritarian and possibly totalitarian push, and (perhaps incidentally, but I think intentionally) part of a larger movement of fascism out of Russia that has been embraced and copied across major parts of The US, UK, France and Germany, and other lesser countries. It's an enormous threat to democracy, free press, free expression, education, the middle class, the very notion of objectivity, and it is threatening the very order of the world, and its effects are just as unpredictable and ominous as the other times this has happened. We're on the route to world war whether these cabals realize that or not (they may be so arrogant as to think they'll be able to control it).
It's exactly as crazy, as stupid, and as dangerous as it plainly appears to be, and you're right to see it for what it is. The everyday people who are promoting it here and elsewhere are exactly as foolish, excited, and misguided as they appear to be. We are a very strong democracy and we may be able to withstand this assault, but the fabric of Europe is tearing. Muslim extremism is major fuel for the fire too.