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Phoenix61

(17,025 posts)
3. I don't think it has anything to do with that.
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 11:02 AM
Mar 2021

Look at how the baby is looking at the man. That’s what Harley wants, desperately. He will align himself with whatever ideology is necessary to get that.

magicarpet

(14,202 posts)
8. ... and the Black person is on death row by maliciousness and/or mistake ...
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 11:20 AM
Mar 2021

... but was found unquestionably innocent...

The response,... just,... OOPS.

Azathoth

(4,611 posts)
7. These deep dives into conservative nutcases always end up uncovering shallow results
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 11:17 AM
Mar 2021

There's no deep mystery to Hawley. He's an intelligent person with massive ambition who was raised from birth in the Limbaugh-Falwell cult, and instead casting away childish things when he came of age, he instead doubled down and became a professional crusader for the faith. That's not an uncommon story in Republican politics. Even Ted Cruz largely fits that mold.

Take someone who is genuinely talented, fill them near-sociopathic ambition, and then indoctrinate them into a fringe belief system that explicitly positions itself against objective reality and common decency, and you are guaranteed to end up with a deeply problematic person.

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