Fucking hell.
Republicans: “Sure, we’re not a country with a king, but we really love and fear THIS king!”
I’m glad that there are people following this…
Hawley wants to raise the minimum wage. Hawley. Josh Hawley.
Maybe he’s a pod person?
This is one of those people who if they told me the sun rose this morning, I’d check. So I’m very curious what his angle is here.
If I had to guess, fear. Missouri passed a $15 minimum wage and it was extremely popular. We also passed mandatory paid leave this past November.
Yep. He probably has his staff monitor the frequency of guillotine meme usage in Missouri and whenever it reaches a predetermined threshold he advocates for something populist.
Remember “Running Man” Hawley.
Although, I just remembered he was just reelected. He’s not up for reelection again until 2030. Maybe he has Presidential aspirations in 2028? I don’t know,
He’ll probably want to ban some people from accessing it, though. I don’t trust that asshole to not be fucking awful.
Also… let’s not forget…
So I’m sure he’d have all sorts of restrictions in his version (restricted to citizens, for example). Back during the original progressive movement, there were racist populists in the Democratic who insisted on ensuring that only whites benefited. 
Yeah maybe. What’s also crazy about Hawley to me is that he’s the senior senator from Missouri and he’s just at the beginning of his second term. I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m just baffled at how Missouri voters consistently vote for progressive policies while also voting for the least progressive candidates.
Yeah, it’s really weird, that… I think it’s that people like Hawley make populist noises loud enough for people to think it’s who he is… and he might actually really support such policies. But we also know we can’t trust people like him on social issues (anti-racism, LGBQT+ support, women’s right, etc). The average Missouri republican might support something like a higher minimum wage, but it’ll get sold as a package with retrograde social policies - “let’s just give this to white men”…
It does tell me that actual progressive policies are broadly popular, but that’s been true for years, I think. Social equity has become the wedge to ensure that white people don’t actual vote for people who will bring the goods, though.
