> But Hawley wants a political future, which requires toeing the line.
Seems like Hawley knows which way the wind is blowing, and recognizes for all of the right populist's online loudness, they don't actually have any power politically. The populists claim that their One Weird Trick can rack up FDR numbers, but if doing so requires a confrontation with capital and entrenched interests, and the status quo plus giving interviews about "small-c conservatism," "working families," or whatever gives you a comfortable 55% re-election, why would you want to actually be a populist?
> But Hawley wants a political future, which requires toeing the line.
Seems like Hawley knows which way the wind is blowing, and recognizes for all of the right populist's online loudness, they don't actually have any power politically. The populists claim that their One Weird Trick can rack up FDR numbers, but if doing so requires a confrontation with capital and entrenched interests, and the status quo plus giving interviews about "small-c conservatism," "working families," or whatever gives you a comfortable 55% re-election, why would you want to actually be a populist?