Who is Josh Hawley, who recently stood out as Donald Trump’s number one official fanatic and let democracy be condemned?Even beating Ted Cruz of Texas in the race for misfortune, the Missouri boy, the so-called “youngest senator in America. “- the first to say that he would oppose the certification this week of the victory of President-elect Joe Biden at the Electoral College.
Since then, Hawley has rightly been called a traitor through his conservative colleagues such as Peter Wehner, White House speech editor for Ronald Reagan and President Bush, who have described him as a cowardly and unpathriotic player in “civic vandalism. “Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said the Hawley press attack amounts to “an effort to deprive millions of voters in my state and others. “
Why are you doing this? The first and most important thing to know about the junior senator of my 41-year-old state is that every single day of his short political career, Hawley ran for the next, better and maximum sensible position.
When Hawley ran as Missouri attorney general in 2016, all everyone knew about him was that he had an R after his call and that he was the guy in the ads that promised he wasn’t going to be like all the other politicians they had. They started a bit of a job, started running for a more prestigious one.
My newspaper, The Kansas City Star, reported that in 2017, “a few weeks after Hawley took over as the state’s most sensible police worker, the high-level political team that would lead its crusade in the US Senate. But it’s not the first time He had intervened to help Political experts from outside Hawley State provided direct recommendations and responsibilities to their taxpayer-funded staff, and tracked to ensure that responsibilities were fulfilled, according to emails and text messages. and other documents. ” This led him to investigate his possible misuse of taxpayer funds, but also led to his choice.
The following year, she defeated the working Democrat, Claire McCaskill, after a crusade she spent relentlessly denouncing coastal elites and announcing that McCaskill had forgotten where she had come from, which is bold because, unlike Hawley, she had never left.
“Liberal elites calling themselves our leaders call us a country that flies above our heads,” Hawley said in his Senate crusade liberation speech. “They don’t just care about our location, they don’t care about our way of life. “
Hawley’s “lifestyle” was gentle, not that there was anything wrong with that, beyond his cheeky hypocrisy. Graduated from a fair high school in Kansas City and then Stanford, he spent a whole year training at St. Louis. Paul’s of London – “Opening the Academic Path for More than 500 Years” – before returning to the United States to examine Yale Law, secretary to Supreme Court President John Roberts and working as an appeal to one of the world’s largest law firms, Hogan
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Republican Hawley reminds me to the fullest of Stephen Colbert’s superconservative and hyperpathic character on the old “Colbert Report” screen, but without the humor. He’s right, of course, that this guy is not a genuine user and that our senator would probably not be a real though at this point he’s such an experienced professional Trumper that he would possibly never break his character.
In the Senate, Hawley did his best to inherit Trump’s donor list when, unsurprisingly, he ran for president in 2024. Just one example of the speech he never stopped giving is a speech in the Senate in June based on his federalist article. titled “The Left Wants a Civil War. “
In this important message, Hawley once back says that all this communication about “systemic racism” is an attack on the president and “the other people who elected him. “These are the red states, like mine. These are the other people who live there: the elite media, the crowd wakes up, they don’t like those other people and they need the rest of America not to like them too.
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According to this logic, any effort to combat racism is in fact an unfair and elitist attack on the white citizens of the Red States. And to point out this is to encourage violence: “You can think about how some media outlets communicate this country that they are unhappy that we are not yet fighting the civil war. They’d like us to fight a new civil war in our culture. As long as everything Hawley says as a natural projection, it all makes sense.
What might not make sense in Hawley’s calculated bid for Trump’s base is that the president he still owns, who will likely flirt with the broker in 2024 for as long as possible, can also keep Hawley’s crusade inesis for years to come.
If his fundraiser ends up frozen indefinitely, while Trump supporters settle for no substitute, Hawley will be trapped in the limbo he so highly deserves: keep running, like always, but running.
Melinda Henneberger is editor and columnist for The Kansas City Star and a member of TODAY’s Taxpayer Board. Follow her on Twitter: @MelindaKCMO
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