Perspective: “It’s not Walker’s ‘controversial image’ that voters, evangelical and otherwise, should be grappling with,” Monica Hesse writes. “It’s the fact that when confronted with this disaster of a campaign, they felt the need to grapple at all.”
And yet: The runoff election was necessary only because in the general election back in November, Walker and Warnock were neck and neck, each one winning nearly 2 million votes. GOP establishment figures continued, in the ensuing weeks, to support their guy. Sens. Ted Cruz and Lindsey O. Graham showed up at a rally in the final stretch of the campaign. “You know why they’re coming after him so hard?” Graham asked. “They’re afraid of him. This is a liberal nightmare.
Throughout the campaign, various commentators launched thoughtful conversations about Walker and what his candidacy said about political fitness. What his candidacy said about athlete worship. What it said about White America, and how White Americans might be using Walker for their own purposes .
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