There’s good news and bad news for the #Resistance since the death of one of its leading lights, John McCain. The good news is the man chosen to take his Senate seat, former three-term Arizona senator Jon Kyl, is the ideal choice to carry on McCain’s legacy in Congress. The bad news is, that means he won’t be doing a whole lot of resisting.

Kyl is a logical choice to fill McCain’s spot. The two were friends and colleagues for more than two decades, with Kyl co-chairing McCain’s exploratory presidential campaign committee in 1998. And their worldview and politics have significant overlap.

Kyl, like McCain, is a right-wing Republican — except several degrees to McCain’s right. Whereas McCain had a lifetime rating of 80.91 from the American Conservative Union (which tracks closely with the 83 percent of the time he voted with Trump), Kyl held a lifetime rating of 96.58 by the time he left Congress in 2012 — the ninth most conservative member of the Senate at that time, particularly impressive when you take into account his twenty-five years of service. In other words, expect Jon Kyl to be an even more loyal Trump ally than McCain was.