How Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Regime Change

These Republicans just told on themselves with a familiar Washington magic trick

There is a familiar Washington magic trick, and Missouri’s U.S. senators perform it with unusual confidence: Spend years denouncing the bipartisan cult of stupid wars, then salute smartly when your own president lights the fuse.Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have both marketed themselves as realists, ...

How Josh Hawley learned to stop worrying and love regime change

There is a familiar Washington magic trick, and Missouri’s U.S. senators perform it with unusual confidence: Spend years denouncing the bipartisan cult of stupid wars, then salute smartly when your own president lights the fuse.Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have both marketed themselves as realists, skeptics of permanent intervention and the old foreign-policy catechism. Hawley said in 2019 that the point of American foreign policy is “not to rem…

How Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt learned to stop worrying and love regime change

A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on Feb. 28 in Tehran, Iran (Getty Images).There is a familiar Washington magic trick, and Missouri’s U.S. senators perform it with unusual confidence: Spend years denouncing the bipartisan cult of stupid wars, then salute smartly when your own president lights the fuse. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have both marketed themselves as realists, skeptics of permanent intervention and the old foreign-policy ca…