During her Arizona gubernatorial campaign in 2022, right-wing activist Kari Lake faced backlash from conservatives following a public insult towards former Senator John McCain (R-AZ). At the time, Lake asked the crowd at one of her campaign events, “We don’t have any McCain Republicans in here, do we? Get the hell out!” Then, following her her primary election win, the failed gubernatorial candidate announced that she “drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine,” calling the late senator a “loser.” When Lake lost the November 2022 midterm election, McCain took to X (formerly Twitter…