REASON: Josh Hawley's Toxic Populism

Reason ^ | March 8 | PETER SUDERMAN

[FenwickBabbitt]

Hawley seems to have the right sort of enemies attacking him, so he must be doing a lot right…

Of course, here the Trump-hating author calls Hawley an “authoritarian” as the Dems openly embrace authoritarianism as they push through their HR1 pro-voter fraud bill eliminating free and fair elections from the entire country, try to add two new states just to take over the Senate more securely, offer to hand over citizenship and voting rights to anyone in the world who wants to come here so Dems’ can get more votes, threaten to turn the Supreme Court into an arm of the Dem majority in Congress, attempt to ditch the filibuster so they can rule uncontested, slander 2 Senators and 1 Congresswoman in hopes of reversing the democratic process and kicking them out of the offices the people put them in…

I wouldn’t call the article controversial; I’d call it slanderous trash.

[chickenlips]

Thank you, I hadn’t read anything anti-America First funded by the Koch Brothers all day. Since I quit caffeine, I usually read globalist libertarian stories like this first thing in the morning to loosen my bowels.

[Robert DeLong]

I figured it must have, by the update it carried at the end. But even that revelation changed nothing in his thought process. These people apparently have never witnessed a real armed insurrection before, even if it was presented on tape rerun. They just needed a mole hill to justify their stupidity, so they could beat their chests and proclaim they were correct all along.

[crusher]

“The author is married to a screedwriter for the Washington Compost and The Atlantic, for ten years thus far.”

Yeah, Megan McArdle. Once apon a time she occasionally had interesting things to say, but since becoming a BezosBot she is now just bat$h!t crazy. She might grow out of it. Long ago and far away I was pretty libertarian myself, but I grew out of it. Now I’m a minarchist.

[Augie]

Agree that Greitens will have a tough row to hoe in a statewide election. He has personal social issues baggage that will be hard for some to ignore.

Ashcroft and Schmitt either one would do nicely. I don’t know much about Wagner.

Truth be told, most anyone with a pulse will be better than roy blunt.

[Does so]

The original version of this overly-long screed had the fake story of Brian Sicknick’s death in it.

Is that the "slain" officer found at Google today?

[firebrand]

The Times had a long over-the-top hatchet job on Hawley yesterday. Apparently he is lazy but ambitious, with dangerous signs of dominionism.

It never dealt with his courageous act of being the first to say Pence should reject electoral votes from the states where fraud is suspected, and his CPAC speech that showed he knows his history and made sure Americans knew that the rejection of electoral votes had been done by Democrats many times in the past when Republicans had been elected. We had a road to a peaceful solution but somehow Trump haters can only see things one way.

OK. It’s time for all the wannabes to tear him down right about now. They are so transparent. Still in junior high, trying to rip him down with unfounded jabs. Everything Trump must of course be annihilated, no matter how brilliant and promising the speaker.