Josh Hawley s former academic mentor says he blames himself for helping the senator rise to power gpanetta@businessinsider.com (Grace Panetta)
Josh Hawley s former academic adviser regrets supporting the senator and helping him achieve his political dreams. I had no inkling really just how conservative he was, Stanford historian David Kennedy said.
Kennedy made the comments in a lengthy Washington Post profile of Hawley.
Stanford University professor David Kennedy, who mentored a college-aged Sen. Josh Hawley, told The Washington Post that he blames himself for helping his former student and boosting his political career. I think he is a thoughtful, deeply analytical person, Kennedy told The Post. What I understand far less well is his particular political evolution. I had no inkling really just how conservative he was. I blame myself.
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I had no inkling really just how conservative he was, Stanford historian David Kennedy said.
Kennedy made the comments in a lengthy Washington Post profile of Hawley.
Stanford University professor David Kennedy, who mentored a college-aged Sen. Josh Hawley, told The Washington Post that he blames himself for helping his former student and boosting his political career. I think he is a thoughtful, deeply analytical person, Kennedy told The Post. What I understand far less well is his particular political evolution. I had no inkling really just how conservative he was. I blame myself.
The professor mentored Hawley and advised him on his thesis about former President Theodore Roosevelt, which was later published as the book Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness.
Why does he say things that he knows are not true and that so harmfully divide people?
February 7, 2021 2:29PM (UTC) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push baseless claims of voter fraud during the presidential election, which Chris Krebs called the most secure in American history. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)