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Seth Cotlar Jul 6, 2023

Some thoughts on the whole Josh Hawley/Patrick Henry kerfuffle that went down on July fourth. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/senator-josh-hawley-tweeted-a-christian

Senator Josh Hawley tweeted a Christian Nationalist quote falsely attributed to Patrick Henry that was actually from a 1950s antisemitic and white supremacist magazine. Who cares?

I do obviously...but it's worth being precise about why and how we should care and what this fake quote kerfuffle actually tells us about the American right.

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Seth Cotlar

I had a conversation yesterday with an op-ed writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who wrote insightfully about the Hawley affair here. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/column/tony-messenger/messenger-josh-hawley-tweeted-a-quote-it-turned-into-a-chilling-history-lesson/article_bdf7ce02-1b73-11ee-989c-1752b8e0d340.html

Messenger: Josh Hawley tweeted a quote. It turned into a chilling history lesson.

A history professor tried to school Missouri's senator about the context tied to a fake Patrick Henry quote. Hawley responded about triggering “the libs.”

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Jim Egler Jul 7, 2023

@sethcotlar Isn't it interesting that the good senator's campaign site doesn't mention his history degree from Stanford, nor that his law degree was obtained at Yale? He names his Missouri high school, though.