Why does Hawley scare so many?

[AltWorlder]

Hawley is a poser, just more empty rhetoric.

This is definitely my problem with the putative economic wetness of Hawley, the post-2016 incarnation of Rubio, and so forth. Hawley doesn't scare or disgust me in the way that, say, Cotton does, but I just don't think he's for real.

Why are you scared of Cotton? He talks a fierce game but he looks like a total rube. He only looks good on paper. He'll be the Scott Walker for whatever year he runs in and for whichever faction he represents.

[AltWorlder]

Well sure Cotton has appalling views but there's a lot of politicians who do. I'm just doubtful that he's really as presidential or even simple leadership material as people think he is.

[AltWorlder]

Maybe in like twenty years, but him, Harley, and Cruz being on Trump’s shortlist for appointees was quite funny and almost smacked of Trump preemptively removing rivals to his potential successors by placing them in the judiciary.

[AltWorlder]

Cotton has scary views and rhetoric but I guess I just don't see him as a presidential shoo-in because he's just so un-photogenic, much like Scott Walker, another ideologue "rising star" who went nowhere

Most on the left would take a fiscal conservative/social liberal over the opposite any day of the week if pressed. Reason why they'll tolerate your typical CEO yet are very scared of Hawley

Yeah, and it's real dumb because most of the company is the opposite. That said, I think most of the country's social conservatism is less anti-immigrant rabble rousing like that which Hawley and Cotton peddle in and more of a Babbit-like dislike for tumultuous change and excessive "PC culture", and maybe anti-abortion sympathies.

[AltWorlder]

He's a handsome, masculine figure. Some people find that intimidating, yet mysteriously sexy, and it scares them. I understand that. I really do.

He's better looking than Cotton but he's also more of an Ivy League priss, which might be masculine by Republican conservatives standards but eh it's been a long time since the Buckley days