Josh Hawley will contest the election results. That - combined with several whackaloons in the House - means that there will be a delay in accepting the entirely legitimate and validated election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I don't know how long the delay will be - a day, a few hours - McConnell wants no part of this, and it will fail in the House.
However, Hawley - slick, cynical and slightly brighter version of Trump - is clearly hitching his political fortunes to Trumpism. As a Republican, it's hard to say that he's wrong. Every passing day cements the GOP as the party of authoritarianism, ethnonationalist populism and wild-eyed conspiracy theories. There is no longer a discernible ideology tp the GOP beyond hatred of liberals. The old Republican Party of deregulation and tax cuts still twitches on the Senate floor like a dying body that doesn't know it's dead. Hawley has also come out for the $2000 checks, showing that he understands that what the Trumpenproletariat hears is that Trumpists will give them shit, just not give to the colored people.
Hawley is more disciplined than Trump. He gets that there is a road to power via these conspiracy theories and giving stuff to WWC voters. I wonder if he has the cruelty to pull it off.
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