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Josh Hawley
The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP Populist Oren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Sept. 6, 2023
McConnell Can’t Fully Quash Health Concerns, Even Among Senate Republicans The Capitol Hill doctor cleared McConnell after he froze for a second time, but a few Senate Republicans openly doubted his rosy health assessment.
By Margaret Hartmann
The Fantasies of Josh Hawley The Missouri senator’s new book, Manhood , is an exercise in cowardice.
By Sarah Jones
january 6 hearings
July 22, 2022
Watch Josh Hawley Run From January 6 Rioters He Cheered On During the eighth January 6 hearing, the committee dragged the senator by airing slow-motion footage of him fleeing from the mob he’d just riled up.
By Margaret Hartmann
the national interest
Apr. 5, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
Josh Hawley Denies Selling ‘Pro-Riot Mug’ The Republican senator is selling a coffee mug depicting his infamous salute to the mob outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
By Matt Stieb
The New Anti-Feminism Conservatives used to argue it was bad for men and women. Now they have dispensed with the pretense of caring about women.
By Sarah Jones
There’s Nothing Novel About Anti-Feminism Senator Josh Hawley has no new ideas, only old prejudices.
By Sarah Jones
what reckoning?
Aug. 13, 2021
The Senate Wants to Give Us a Lot More Cops Last year’s so-called reckoning with race is curdling into a bipartisan love fest for the police.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
vision 2024
July 21, 2021
Has Trump Spoiled the GOP for More Rational Leaders? If Trump doesn’t run in 2024, other Republican presidential contenders will have a hard time rivaling his unique demagogic appeal.
By Ed Kilgore
Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders Already Auditioning for Vice-President? It’s one theory for why she’s running a savage culture-war campaign for Arkansas governor. The others are scarier.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 19, 2021
Greitens Tries the Maximum MAGA Strategy in Comeback Bid for Senate Seat The disgraced former governor will have Trumpy competition in the primary, which could make a Democratic upset in a key Senate race possible.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Apr. 14, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
republicans
Mar. 31, 2021
The Rotten Core of Republican Appeals to the Working Class Republicans are embracing the perilous tradition of producerism, offering working-class voters a mix of nativism, protectionism, and culture war.
By Ed Kilgore
The Fake Feminists Fighting the Equality Act Josh Hawley says he’s trying to protect women by leaving trans and queer ones vulnerable.
By Sarah Jones
conservatism
Mar. 12, 2021
What Can Republicans Do to Make ‘Conservative Populism’ More Popular? From identifying a few ways to re-redistribute resources to their constituencies to restricting the franchise, Republicans are battling the future.
By Ed Kilgore
capitol riot
Feb. 16, 2021
The Bozell Family Tradition of Right-Wing Extremism Brent Bozell IV, arrested after the Capitol Riot, seems to have followed in the footsteps of his media critic father and his Francoist grandfather.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment trial
Feb. 16, 2021
Senate Republicans Split on Trump’s Culpability for Capitol Riot Mitch McConnell wasn’t the only senator who combined a vote to acquit Trump with criticism of his conduct. But most won’t have trouble crawling back.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 25, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
cancellations
Jan. 18, 2021
Simon & Schuster Cancels Senator Josh Hawley’s Book After Capitol Riot Hawley has found a new publisher for his book in Regnery, which is distributed globally by… wait for it… Simon & Schuster.
By Chris Murphy
the national interest
Jan. 13, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
conservatism
Jan. 12, 2021
As ‘Woke Capital’ Turns on Trump, the GOP Turns on ‘Small Government’ The movement for “small government” is starting to realize that it has more influence over the state than it does over the corporate sector.
By Eric Levitz
capitol riot
Jan. 8, 2021
Impeachment Could Ban Trump From Running in 2024 It’s too late for Congress to remove Trump before Inauguration Day. But a post-presidential impeachment and conviction could prevent a Trump comeback.
By Ed Kilgore
capitol riot
Jan. 7, 2021
Simon & Schuster Cancels Josh Hawley’s Book Deal After Capitol Riot The publisher stated it “cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat.”
By Matt Stieb
contested election
Jan. 4, 2021
Tom Cotton Breaks With Trump on Coup Attempt in Congress The Arkansan split with other presidential wannabes in warning that Trump is undermining an Electoral College that has served Republicans well.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Jan. 3, 2021
Futile Ploy to Overturn Election in Congress Divides GOP Republicans in the Senate and House are publicly at odds over a pointless plan to block the certification of Biden’s win out of loyalty to Trump.
By Chas Danner
contested election
Dec. 30, 2020
Hawley to Trigger Congressional Vote on Trump’s Election Coup The circus will come to Congress on January 6, but the man at center ring is Mike Pence, who will preside over a joint session to certify electors.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Dec. 29, 2020
The Flimsy Nixon Precedent Trump Is Seizing On to Contest Biden’s Win In 1960, Nixon disregarded a certified Electoral College slate from Hawaii favoring him. This is not the same as Pence disregarding a national defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
House Votes To Override Trump Veto for the First Time The president vetoed the annual defense authorization bill, partially to protect Confederate-named installations. The key vote will be in the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
covid-19 stimulus
Dec. 18, 2020
Trump Nearly Blew Up Stimulus Talks With Demand for a Big Second Check Trump wants the kind of spending that horrifies most of his closest allies in Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
Congress and Trump Will Keep Bickering Through the Holidays Endless wrangling over spending and stimulus and a likely Trump veto of a defense-policy bill are casting a pall over a holiday-decorated Capitol.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus stimulus
Dec. 10, 2020
By Matt Stieb
conservatism
Dec. 9, 2020
Why the Right’s Principled Populists Will Lose The vanguard of “pro-worker conservatism” has a clear-eyed view of the Trump era’s lessons — but little hope of making the GOP learn them.
By Eric Levitz
covid-19 stimulus
Dec. 7, 2020
Hawley to Trump: Veto Any Stimulus Bill With No Second Check Congress is considering a stimulus deal along with a stopgap spending bill, but negotiators remain stuck. Maybe Hawley and Trump can produce movement.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Nov. 30, 2020
By Jonathan Chait
vision 2020
Nov. 18, 2020
Who Could Lead Trumpism Without Trump? There are several paths Republicans could take to maintain Trump’s political appeal without all the baggage.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Sept. 9, 2020
Trump Adds Cotton, Cruz, and Hawley to His Supreme Court Prospect List If you think a Justice Kavanaugh is bad, consider Justice Cotton, Justice Cruz, or Justice Hawley.
By Ed Kilgore
The Populist Case for Trump Is Now 100 Percent Policy Free In an op-ed, GOP senator Josh Hawley argues that Trump has fought Wall Street to aid working people, citing no examples.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Aug. 10, 2020
‘Working Class’ Conservatism Doesn’t Work Without Unions Self-styled “populist” Republicans — who oppose pro-labor policies — are just Reaganites in different clothes.
By Eric Levitz
supreme court
July 27, 2020
Trump’s Next Supreme Court List Could Be Really Extreme Conservatives are again feeling betrayed on abortion and LGBTQ rights. Trump needs to convince them his future picks would be infallibly reactionary.
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
July 23, 2020
The Future of the Republican Party Isn’t in the Dead Center Don’t expect moderate heretics like Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan to inherit the GOP from Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
July 18, 2020
The GOP Coalition Is Getting More Working-Class. Its Agenda Isn’t. A post-Trump, putatively “populist” GOP may make gains with working people. But there’s no sign it will serve their interests.
By Eric Levitz
the capitol
Jan. 30, 2020
Senators Kamala Harris, Josh Hawley, Jeff Merkley on the Grind of Trying Trump Democrats Kamala Harris and Jeff Merkley and Republican Josh Hawley reflect on the nuts and bolts of tracking an impeachment trial.
By Ben Jacobs
josh hawley
Oct. 22, 2019
By Ed Kilgore
What Will Republicans Do If Trump Goes Down? It’s unlikely, but if it happens, Republicans better hope Mike Pence survives the scandal, because there’s no obvious party savior otherwise.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. constitution
Sept. 17, 2019
Please, No Lectures on Fidelity to the Constitution From Josh Hawley The Republican senator’s idea of the constitution is strictly as a vehicle for the authoritarian cultural order he prefers.
By Ed Kilgore
Senator Josh Hawley Wants to Outlaw Infinite Scrolling Hawley’s newest anti-tech bill targets the symptoms, not the disease.
By Brian Feldman
the national interest
July 22, 2019
Why ‘National Conservative’ Josh Hawley Wants to Enrich Foreign Banks A good test of the sincerity of the newest strain of self-proclaimed right-wing populists.
By Jonathan Chait
nationalism
July 20, 2019
National Conservatives Want Cultural Dominance Not ‘Social Cohesion’ The right can foster “national solidarity” or impose its social values on an increasingly diverse and secular country, but it can’t do both.
By Eric Levitz
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