This past Tuesday, a new wingnut welfare operation called The Edmund Burke Foundation sponsored a "National Conservatism" conference in Washington. The conference has been described as basically an attempt to reverse- engineer a conservative philosophical veneer over Trumpism. Giving the keynote address (!) was Missouri's answer to Arkansas's crackpot Sen. Tom "Pencil Neck" Cotton, Sen. Josh "Lord Haw Haw" Hawley. It seems Hawley knows how to speak the language of Steven Miller, Stormfront and Stalin:
Sen. Josh Hawley tonight: "It's time we ended this cosmopolitan experiment and recovered the promise of our republic. Let's start with this: America is not going to become the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is not going to become America."— Jonah Bennett (@BennettJonah) July 16, 2019
Taking notice --
If you're Jewish and the use of "cosmopolitan" doesn't scare you, read some history https://t.co/yc5xTCN2ck— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 18, 2019
It sounded better in the original German.— Meghan🌹 (Bitch Jesus) (@meglanker) July 19, 2019
Jesus, this man is stupid.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 18, 2019
There is an entire American tradition of right-wing nationalist language that frames a herrenvolk middle against an underclass of racial and ethnic others and an overclass of the wealthy, defined primarily as cultural elites and often identified as Jews.— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 19, 2019
He is basically a clone of Tom Cotton, but with a little more theocracy to add to the white nationalist bile.— Taylor Desloge (@TaylorDesloge) July 19, 2019
Hawley (and Cotton) is why I'm reasonably sure we'll get a "Trump but actually competent" at some point in the near to medium-term.— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 18, 2019
BONUS: Haw Haw's been asked to apologize for his remarks by the Missouri Anti- Defamation League.
