How to fake populist
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People have been subjecting Stanford/Yale “populist” Josh Hawley for his cynical and seditious attack on American democracy to some small fraction of the vitriol it merits. Since he doesn’t like people pointing out that he thinks Republicans are entitled to govern even if voters prefer Democrats, he has retreated to his other, more familiar cynical schtick:
First of all, LOL at the move of pretending to believe that people who are attacking the lites of Hawley and other wealthy Republican elites are really attacking the ordinary voters who believe them (and note how it’s gone from “millions” to, apparently, literally everyone who voted for Trump.) But let’s unpack this further. What, exactly, does Hawley propose doing about Wal-Mart’s treatment of workers? One obvious option would be to raise the minimum wage, but Hawley, unlike the overwhelming majority of Missouri voters, opposed to raising it to even $12 and hour. Perhaps he believes on the power of collective bargaining instead? Hahaha no, in the same election cycle he also disagreed with a majority of Missouri voters by supporting make it a “right-to-work” state.
And not only does he believe that ordinary workers should be entirely on their own against powerful corporations, he voted to give Wal-Mart a nice juicy $2 billion tax cut. Feel the populism! On the other hand, it’s true that there was not literally no voter fraud in the 2020 elections:
Josh Hawley voted in Missouri using his sister’s address. State law requires voters to register at their residence. Hawley owns a home in the DC suburbs and a lot under development in Missouri. https://t.co/OtJwW0dYzi— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) December 30, 2020
Bernie Madoff only wishes he could be fraudulent on as many levels as Hawley.
Anyway, let’s be clear what’s going on here: opposing free and fair elections if voters have the impudence to choose Democrats becoming Republican orthodoxy.