In 2016, Eric Greitens ran a marketing campaign totally targeted on capturing issues. Taking pictures issues. Taking pictures extra issues. And likewise blowing up issues. Significantly, 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 form of public workplace, went on to win the Missouri gubernatorial election by a big margin over Chris Koster, a reasonable Democrat who had been the Missouri Legal professional Common and a state senator. Then, a yr 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 pictures 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 the entire above—has claimed she has documentary proof that he abused each her and their kids.
Despite all this, Greitens introduced that he’s working for Missouri Senate this yr to interchange 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 might be straightforward to dismiss Greitens as some type of backwoods fool, waving weapons round as a result of he doesn’t know the rest. Nope. This man? He’s a Rhodes Scholar. He wrote two books in regards to the significance of caring for others, preventing genocide, and ending using landmines. One in all his books opens with a foreword by Paul Rusesabagina, the central determine of Resort Rwanda.
Till 2015, Greitens referred to 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 exhausting 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 wherein individuals are hunted down and summarily executed for failing to have the proper ideas … he’s been rewarded.
