In what seems a lifetime ago, I wrote to Dole's office asking if they could square his millions in political donations from Archer Daniels Midland and the Kochs and fealty to their political goals with his public pronouncements in support of small family farms. Someone from his office wrote me back in less than polite terms that I was simply a pointy-headed librul. I guess they missed the part where I wrote my family has been in continuous farming operation in this country since before the Revolution.
Oh, well.
Dole was a genial warrior for the most part. Didn't care for most of his positions but he wasn't a strident, culture-war loony a la his contemporary Pat Buchanan and Dole called Buchanan on it. Sure wish he'd have done the same with Trump.