'Bamboozled.' Hawley mentors stunned by conduct, but early warning signs were there Read more here:

[UpInArms]

Josh Hawley was a precocious 15-year-old in 1995, writing a regular column for his hometown paper, The Lexington News, when he was still in high school.

He used the early platform to opine on politics, culture and those he believed had been unfairly maligned by the media — among them anti-government militias and Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman.

Hawley warned against depicting all militia members as domestic terrorists after the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people, including 19 children. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who carried out the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, had ties to the Michigan Militia.

“Many of the people populating these movements are not radical, right-wing, pro-assault weapons freaks as they were originally stereotyped,” Hawley wrote two months after the bombing.

He argued that middle class Americans had gravitated to anti-government organizations out of genuine concerns about federal overreach and a disillusionment with mainstream politics.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article248663695.html?ac_cid=DM370844&ac_bid=-763817832

This confirms a theory of mine ... people generally don’t change, they just become more of who they are.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. What makes a 15 y/o boy get a boner over anti-govt shit? A fucking sociopath.

[machoneman]

4. At 15, it had to be 80%+ his parents and local pals with RW parents as well.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. But consider that EVERYTHING makes a 15 y/o boy get a boner. nt

[KayF]

2. those are some hot takes n/t

[ananda]

3. Reeps suffer from confirmation bias in a big way.

They see what they want to see, which is usually
hateful and harmful to those they hate; and they
ignore or rationalize what they don't want to see,
namely the greed, corruption, and immorality of
their leaders... and their nazification.

[JI7]

6. So he was an active white supremacist since he was a kid

[rustbeltvoice]

7. A jerk at 6, is a jerk at 60.

[Irish_Dem]

8. His mentors knew full well he advocated domestic terrorism and white supremacy.

It was no secret.

At age 15 he was stating the case for these evils and defending immoral behavior.

Another sociopath.

[Midnight Writer]

9. Show me a child at seven, and I will show you the man.

Anyone watch the Seven Up films?