In 2016, Eric Greitens ran a marketing campaign solely targeted on capturing issues. Taking pictures issues. Taking pictures extra issues. And in addition blowing up issues. Severely, this was Greitens’ first marketing campaign advert and it was by far the least offensive. From there, the weapons, explosions, and promise of violence solely went up.
Greitens, who had by no means held any kind of public workplace, went on to win the Missouri gubernatorial election by a big margin over Chris Koster, a average Democrat who had been the Missouri Legal professional Normal and a state senator. Then, a 12 months after taking workplace, Greitens needed to resign in shame after discovering himself charged with felony invasion of privateness “over allegations that he sexually assaulted a girl he was having an affair with, tied her up, took photographs of her, tried to blackmail her, and subsequently participated in publicly humiliating her.”
Yeah, that. Subsequently, Greitens’ ex-wife—the one he was dishonest on when he did all the above—has claimed she has documentary proof that he abused each her and their youngsters.
Despite all this, Greitens introduced that he’s working for Missouri Senate this 12 months to switch the retiring Roy Blunt. And, as a result of the world is the way in which it’s, he’s the main candidate for the Republican nomination.
It could be straightforward to dismiss Greitens as some form of backwoods fool, waving weapons round as a result of he doesn’t know anything. Nope. This man? He’s a Rhodes Scholar. He wrote two books concerning the significance of caring for others, preventing genocide, and ending the usage of landmines. One among his books opens with a foreword by Paul Rusesabagina, the central determine of Resort Rwanda.
Till 2015, Greitens known as himself a Democrat. However because the already malignant Tea Occasion motion metastasized additional into MAGA, Greitens is a type of who jumped on board, recognizing a ripe alternative for self-promotion and revenue. It’s arduous to say he’s a hypocrite … as a result of it isn’t clear if that time period can actually be utilized to a sociopath. Like Trump, Greitens loves the uneducated. Likes to feed them a stream of pseudo-strength and not-even-disguised fascist imagery.
And each time he has turned the dial towards a nightmare police state through which persons are hunted down and summarily executed for failing to have the right ideas … he’s been rewarded.
