If Herschel Walker loses his Senate race, it will further erode the notion that know-nothing celebrities can easily follow in Donald Trump’s footsteps, benwallacewells writes.
Herschel Walker’s campaign in Georgia for U.S. Senate, now in its fifteenth month without much of a reduction in the general confusion it’s caused, has been a gold mine for opposition researchers of all types.
Walker is an affable, jokey presence on the stump, which makes it a little tricky to decode what’s actually going on up there. He isn’t making an argument so much as delineating a character—is he doing a bit? Not exactly—the ignorance is too earnest for that—but he is running a kind of hillbilly charm offensive, a throwback in certain ways to the Huey Long-era Democratic populists in the South. “I’m not that smart,” Walker said, ahead of his lone debate against Warnock.
Just as much, though, these candidates have struggled with the extremism that is part of the Trumpist package. The Trump model is to be outré all the time, as a way to grab attention, as a taunt to the establishment and a signal to the base—but how far to go, exactly, and where? Oz said he had questions about the 2020 election without directly calling it illegitimate, a middle position that pleased no one.
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