"Josh Hawley Is A Fraud."

Click here for the article with that title at Splinter, by Paul Blest. Hawley is the junior senator from Missouri, and a rising star in the Republican party. He defeated two-term Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill in 2018.

The premise of the article is that while Hawley purports to represent the downtrodden workers of Missouri, he has a very elitist history:

Hawley’s father Ron is a banker. Hawley himself graduated with a B.A. from Stanford, then went on to receive a law degree from Yale and clerk for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts. He then became one of the lead lawyers for the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom arguing the Hobby Lobby case before the Supreme Court, and was elected the attorney general of Missouri at the age of 36. Josh Hawley has had a privileged childhood, an academic pedigree from two of the top private universities in the world (and then, briefly, was an academic himself), a place in some of most prestigious places in the legal profession all before he turned 35, and is now a United States Senator.

Blest points out that "during his successful run for Senate against Claire McCaskill, Hawley usually glossed over all of these details on the campaign trail in favor of anecdotes about 'hard work' and 'growing up in a small town.'”

Along with Tucker Carlson, Hawley was a keynote speaker at the recent National Conservatism Conference in D.C. Remember the name: He'll be a consequential Republican in years to come.