Thoughts on Josh Hawley: One thing we should have learned long ago is that politicians' character extends across multiple issues. I realized that Bush etc were lying about Iraq bc the selling of the war sounded just like the lies used to sell tax cuts 1/
Until now the most striking thing about Hawley was the way he lied about health care — pretending to support protection for pre-existing conditions while actually trying to destroy it 2/
This may have seemed like a wonkish argument, although if he had actually gotten his way it would have ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans. But it also told you who he was 3/
It's good that some of his former backers now realize that he's a monster. But he always was — and it was always obvious 4/
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