The Capitol Insurrection
The Rise and Fall of Josh Hawley
The Man Who Would Be King’s ambition was to be Trump’s successor. Sadly for him, he was.
14 min readJan 10, 2021
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Joshua Hawley’s rise has been meteoric, so much so that he was on an impossible trajectory.
Hawley was the thinking man’s Trump. A Yale grad with a law degree and writing chops that would make him the alt-right’s version of Obama.