Thread by @davekarpf

@HawleyMO @nypost Okay... so, um, a few notes. This is not a good first draft.

1. The United States doesn't have a social credit score system. (Neither, really, does China.) People don't want to associate you because you promoted a violent insurrection. Do you see how those are *different*?

@HawleyMO @nypost 2. Corporate America didn't "rush to cancel" you.

You lost a book contract with one publishing house, and it was picked up by another. Some corporate PACs also asked for their donations back, because you attempted to undermine the legitimacy of free and fair elections.

@HawleyMO @nypost 2b (cont'd) That's, y'know, the "marketplace of ideas" in action. (You're supposed to like the free market. It's part of your brand.)

If you would like major donors not to demand their money back, then next time you should choose not to support a violent insurrection.

@HawleyMO @nypost 3. You keep doing this thing where you conflate "corporate America" and "leftists." That's sloppy. No one believes Walmart is a leftist front. It comes across like you don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.

Try to be specific. Nail down at least one actual idea.

@HawleyMO @nypost 4. Also, you don't come across as an everyman-warrior-against-cancel-culture, because you're a frickin' US SENATOR!

You have thousands of constituents dying of COVID right now. You have a job to do. Your audience doesn't pity you for two weeks of bad news cycles.

@HawleyMO @nypost 5. I wouldn't target the New York Post with his column.

Tom Cotton published his ode-to-American-fascism in the New York Times. (That was a real conversation-starter, amirite?)

Placing it in the New York Post just seems... a little desperate and pathetic.

@HawleyMO @nypost ...Maybe try a local Missouri paper instead?

(Oh, that's right, they've all called for your resignation. Because you supported an insurrection against the US government, and are derelict in your duties as a Senator. I forgot. My bad.)

@HawleyMO @nypost ...Wait, sorry, the New York Post ALREADY PUBLISHED THIS?

But... Joshie... it's BAD. Like you-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about-and-every-will-be-able-to-see-that bad.

You really should've asked for some critical feedback before you submitted it.

@HawleyMO @nypost Okay, well I have one final suggestion.

Why don't you try resigning in disgrace?

You know, because you supported a violent insurrection against the US government, and there's no excusing or forgetting that.

Yeah. Resign in disgrace. That's really your best option.