Josh Hawley
| Josh Hawley | |||
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| Junior U.S. Senator from Missouri From: January 3, 2019 – present | |||
| Predecessor | Claire McCaskill | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| 42nd Attorney General of Missouri From: January 9, 2017 – January 3, 2019 | |||
| Governor | Eric Greitens Mike Parson | ||
| Predecessor | Chris Koster | ||
| Successor | Eric Schmitt | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Erin Morrow | ||
| Religion | Evangelical Christian | ||
- Senator Josh Hawley was Conservative of the Year 2019
Joshua David “Josh” Hawley, born December 31, 1979 (age 43), is the conservative U.S. Senator from Missouri, serving since 2019. He is a Republican and trounced in a landslide pro-abort liberal Democrat Claire McCaskill in the 2018 midterm elections. Previously, he served as Missouri Attorney General and also worked for conservative legal organizations such as The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom.
Hawley is a leader in defending against attempts by the Left to erode masculinity and manliness. He was also outspoken and unapologetic for defending election integrity against never-ending liberal attempts to undermine it.
As a U.S. Senator, Hawley has taken the lead on requiring judicial nominees who respect the U.S. Constitution and who are not pro-abortion. Sen. Hawley has forcefully promoted strongly conservative positions on multiple issues.[1]
He also defended President Trump during the Democrats' witchhunts against him. Hawley showed his adamant support and understanding of Trump's innocence.[2]
After vowing to object to the "results" of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Hawley's Washington, D.C. home, where his wife and newborn baby were, was surrounded by a militant mob of far-left activists in early January 2021, some of which tried to pound on the door to further harass and intimidate his family.[3]
Political positions
- Pro-life
- Pro-gun
- Fiscally and Socially Conservative
- Pro-Trump
- Nationalism over globalism
- Changes to CDA 230[4]
In a speech to the Heritage Foundation on February 17, 2023 Hawley criticized the Uniparty:
| “ | Dozens of lawmakers and so-called experts and talking heads have claimed that an invasion of Taiwan simply will not happen, or that if it does we'll of course prevail. They say that China is afraid to challenge us, or just that they won't. These people prefer to tell a familiar and comforting story, it's become a bit of a bedtime story in the foreign policy community which goes like this: That winning the Cold War allows us to police the world for all time. No problem. They want us to believe our military might is infinite, that American power faces no real constraints, and that we ought to use it to try and reshape the world.
Now they want us to believe we can fight an endless proxy war in Ukraine, and somehow, someway none of this will deter our ability to stop China from invading Taiwan, or deter our ability to stop China elsewhere. Curiously enough, this story of American Empire, and that's really what it is–a story of liberal empire–is not particularly partisan. It's told by neoconservatives on the right and liberal globalists on the left. Together they make up what you might call the Uniparty, the D.C. establishment that transcends all changing administrations.[5] |
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Criticisms
Hawley has been denounced by many observers, including the ADL,[6] for his tirade against "cosmopolitan" elites,[7] an antisemitic canard infamously used by Communist mass murderer Joseph Stalin. Despite widespread backlash, Hawley dismissed criticisms of his alleged usage of Communist propaganda.
See also
External links
- Profile at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
References
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Binder, John (May 26, 2019). Watch–Josh Hawley Rips ‘Aristocratic Elite’ for Engineering U.S. Economy Against American Middle Class. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Bokhari, Allum (May 6, 2019). Sen. Josh Hawley: Big Tech a ‘Source of Peril’ for American Society. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Binder, John (July 20, 2019). Watch–Josh Hawley: Globalization Working for the ‘Cosmopolitan Class,’ Not the ‘Great American Middle’. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Moran, Sean (July 19, 2019). Josh Hawley: ‘Liberal Language Police’ Lost Their Minds over ‘Cosmopolitan’ Scandal. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Pinkerton, James P. (May 22, 2019). Josh Hawley, the Senator From Main Street. The American Conservative. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Hawley, Josh (July 20, 2019). Restoring the Great American Middle. The American Conservative. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Binder, John (August 3, 2019). Watch–Josh Hawley: ‘Elite Consensus’ for ‘Open Markets, Open Borders’ Disregards American Middle Class. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- Binder, John (November 1, 2019). Josh Hawley: Bush’s Globalist ‘New World Order’ Has Made the Elites Rich, Eroded ‘Middle Class Way of Life’. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- Moran, Sean (November 12, 2019). Josh Hawley: ‘Burden’ of U.S. Forever Wars Falls ‘Disproportionately’ on ‘Working-Class’ Americans. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- Hawley, Josh (November 24, 2019). End ‘Forever Wars’ and Face China’s Threat. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- Lehman, Charles Fain (December 12, 2019). Josh Hawley, populism's philosopher-in-chief. Washington Examiner. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
- ↑ Multiple sources:
- Doe, John. “Senator Hawley on Impeachment Trial Opening Arguments.” C-Span, 22 Jan. 2020, www.c-span.org/video/?468383-101%2Fsenator-hawley-impeachment-trial-opening-arguments.
- Schwartz, Ian. “Sen. Hawley: Trump Impeachment A Joke, ‘It's Time To Get The President Exonerated.’” RealClearPolitics, 17 Dec. 2019, www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/17/sen_hawley_trump_impeachment_a_joke_its_time_to_get_the_president_exonerated.html.
- ↑ Hoft, Jim (January 4, 2021). VIOLENT LEFTIST MOB Swarms and Attacks Senator Hawley’s DC Home — Pounding on Door, Screaming Threats — Terrorizing His Wife and Newborn Baby. Gateway Pundit. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ↑ SENATOR HAWLEY INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO AMEND SECTION 230 IMMUNITY FOR BIG TECH COMPANIES
- ↑ https://youtu.be/om6Y9Lg2RS4
- ↑ Sales, Ben (July 19, 2019). Senator’s speech on ‘cosmopolitan elites’: Anti-Semitic dog whistle or poli-sci speak? Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
- ↑ Cooper, Ryan (July 25, 2019). GOP Sen. Josh Hawley grossly mischaracterized the views of 4 academics in his 'cosmopolitan elites' speech. The Week. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
