What does Josh Hawley think he's doing?
This is what some people have been afraid of: that Trumpism will not flame out, that it will instead change shape, that it will acquire perfect chestnut hair and blue suits that fit, that it will trade seething mania for intellectual finesse, that it will blather not about strong walls and weak toilets but about cosmopolitan hegemony, that it will not obsess over stolen elections and evil Democrats but instead lodge procedural complaints that sow doubt about the legitimacy of Democratic victories. And so on Jan. 6, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) objected to the electoral vote count in the name of The People, about eight hours after The People laid siege to his workplace.
“We do need an investigation into irregularities, fraud,” Hawley said, deglazing President Trump’s ecstatic paranoia into a call for election integrity. “We do need a way forward together.”
Hawley, against Senate custom, was playing directly to the TV camera. His flinty baritone was dialed down to match the somber aftermath of insurrection. The 41-year-old junior senator denounced the violence of the day, and of the past year, and then framed his objection as a restoration of order. He was there to give peaceful voice to the anger of constituents but, on a granular level, Hawley’s move had something to do with the laws and constitution of Pennsylvania. It also had something to do, if you followed Mitt Romney’s cues, with the ambitions of Josh Hawley.
“I ask my colleague,” said Romney (R-Utah), seeming to address Hawley, “do we weigh our political fortunes more heavily than we weigh the strength of our republic, the strength of our democracy and the cause of freedom?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/josh-hawley-missouri-senator-trump-election-fraud/2021/01/16/2fed38a6-55e4-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
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