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  Josh Hawley -- what a lightweight.
  He's like Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager -- a dumb person's idea of a smart person.
  Hawley and Shapiro were fawned over by not-too-bright adults when they were kids, "oooh, look how smart they are!...they are our future!" 
  Just because Hawley wrote an essay, and Shapiro bullied a few kids at high school debates into submission. The adults kept telling them how smart they were and paid so they could go elite schools, and now these knobs actually believe they are smart as the adults said they were.
  But that's the state of the Republican party today, here we are.
context: Its insane how far we have shifted. 
  This ad feels like a perfect Republican candidate. Grassroots, Military background, Fox news opinion writer and pro-union/working class....and a Democrat? >
  
  During my lifetime, Democrats have been the working class party.  Rich people tend to be Republican.  That has not changed. Note: the southern strategy inducted low IQ working class to the Republican party, maybe that is what you are referring to >
  
  Everyone should watch Harlan County, USA. It's a 1976 documentary of the Brookside Strike in 1973. You'll hear a bunch of coal miners and their families talking left populism. One of the biggest scams the future Party of Trump ever pulled was shifting those people rightward by promising them the jobs and support they were busily stripping away. >
  
  
  Promising them jobs and support 
  
  You left out appeals to latent racism among the white working class. As LBJ said:
  "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
  There's some overlap in that the GOP blamed minorities (initially blacks in the South, then immigants of any shade) for the poor economic prospects of the working class. But the working class buying into that doesn't happen if there wasn't already widespread racial/cultural animus present. >
  
  True story >
  
  Sample Missouri ballot:
  Fascist asshole __
  Other guy ✔️ >
  
  Missouri be more like:
  Fascist asshole ✔️
  Marine Veteran/working class union supporter X >
  
  They just check to see if the name has an “R” by is. That’s literally all they care about. >
  
  Former Marine
  but the Hawley admin calls him a "woke activist".
  Yeah, Republicans really love to Support Our Troops. >
  
  They've moved to denigrating the current military as "effeminate" and simping for "strong" fascist militias of years past >
  
  No one runs faster than Hawley >
  
  Fistpump McRunpants