I don’t think people fundamentally change. Hawley is still that 15year old who managed to get something published in support of OK City massacre. He’s still the fist in the air.
I hope he votes with US, not Trump, but not holding my breath.
BTW the 2 most brilliant presidents in the last 30years were very middle class, raised in unconventional families. Pres Clinton&Obama.
I think you're getting at what Republicans are all about: not politics, but performance. Not constituents, but audiences. Hawley is trying to draw eyeballs away from those with less compelling messages. You're absolutely right that this is in bad faith for those us of with brains and moral centers, but for Republican politicians it's an article of faith that what you say is far more important than what you do. Look at the Republicans who voted for Trump's Hispanic Holocaust because his Gestapo would only go after criminals and are now surprised that they are rounding of the low-hanging, infinitely large group of law-abiding immigrants. But would they vote for him again instead of a Black woman? Absolutely. They want the story, not the substance, because it makes them feel better about themselves.
"Don’t worry; if Josh Hawley just gives you the willies, you can rest assured that there are a hundred reasons to dislike him that have nothing to do with what he thinks about workers."
This guy's not a person, he's an equation, and the more influential terms are slim-fit suits, quiffs, and Ivy-and-Ivy-adacent smugness, with an extremely generous error term to account for looking out at a mob of enraged and armed warrior cosplay misfits and deciding an 'I'm one of you, ignore my shoes and hair, wink wink' fist pump was a great photo op, and also to account for a susequent noncertification vote that told the "workers" --rhe ones who got brutalized on his behalf while holding the line--just how much he actually cares about actual workers.
Hawley is MAGA to the core. Any moves away from that fact are nothing more than a lame attempt to save himself from culpability for the hateful, cruel policies of the Trump regime that will ruin the lives of so many Missourians who are unable to recognize that voting for Republicans because guns, Jesus, woke is very bad for their lives.
If Hawley truly believes the stuff he says he's selling, I'd like to see what he's doing to convince other Republicans to agree with him and make changes. If he's not persuading others, than its just performative BS.
yes, Hawley has always given me the willies. but it has been a very long time since I learned that politicians make deals among themselves that allow them to vote against an issue they favor in order to help their own re-election as long as their vote is not needed to actually pass the bill they actually favor. both parties do this. sometimes such shenanigans are actualy necessary to get a bill passed that is good for the country but unpopular with the people.
on th other hand, what Trump is doing is not good for the country.
I don’t think people fundamentally change. Hawley is still that 15year old who managed to get something published in support of OK City massacre. He’s still the fist in the air.
I hope he votes with US, not Trump, but not holding my breath.
BTW the 2 most brilliant presidents in the last 30years were very middle class, raised in unconventional families. Pres Clinton&Obama.
Not elites.
I think you're getting at what Republicans are all about: not politics, but performance. Not constituents, but audiences. Hawley is trying to draw eyeballs away from those with less compelling messages. You're absolutely right that this is in bad faith for those us of with brains and moral centers, but for Republican politicians it's an article of faith that what you say is far more important than what you do. Look at the Republicans who voted for Trump's Hispanic Holocaust because his Gestapo would only go after criminals and are now surprised that they are rounding of the low-hanging, infinitely large group of law-abiding immigrants. But would they vote for him again instead of a Black woman? Absolutely. They want the story, not the substance, because it makes them feel better about themselves.
"Don’t worry; if Josh Hawley just gives you the willies, you can rest assured that there are a hundred reasons to dislike him that have nothing to do with what he thinks about workers."
Thanks for that.
This guy's not a person, he's an equation, and the more influential terms are slim-fit suits, quiffs, and Ivy-and-Ivy-adacent smugness, with an extremely generous error term to account for looking out at a mob of enraged and armed warrior cosplay misfits and deciding an 'I'm one of you, ignore my shoes and hair, wink wink' fist pump was a great photo op, and also to account for a susequent noncertification vote that told the "workers" --rhe ones who got brutalized on his behalf while holding the line--just how much he actually cares about actual workers.
It’s embarrassing watching Hawley trying to figure out how to be what he isn’t, a rich, greedy asshole.
I am, unfortunately, one of his constituents. Until he does all the things you mention and more, frog, meet scorpion.
Poser for sure.
Hawley is MAGA to the core. Any moves away from that fact are nothing more than a lame attempt to save himself from culpability for the hateful, cruel policies of the Trump regime that will ruin the lives of so many Missourians who are unable to recognize that voting for Republicans because guns, Jesus, woke is very bad for their lives.
He is saying a lot of things now but he will vote yes on the Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate now.. He isn't really fooling anyone.
If Hawley truly believes the stuff he says he's selling, I'd like to see what he's doing to convince other Republicans to agree with him and make changes. If he's not persuading others, than its just performative BS.
yes, Hawley has always given me the willies. but it has been a very long time since I learned that politicians make deals among themselves that allow them to vote against an issue they favor in order to help their own re-election as long as their vote is not needed to actually pass the bill they actually favor. both parties do this. sometimes such shenanigans are actualy necessary to get a bill passed that is good for the country but unpopular with the people.
on th other hand, what Trump is doing is not good for the country.