Molting Hawks

Will isolationists dominate the 2024 Republican field?

By Nick Catoggio

Oct 12, 2022

Mike Pompeo. (Photo by Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty Images.)

To understand politics in 2022, consider two tweets from yesterday. The first comes from a progressive Democrat—sorry, former Democrat—known for, among other things, supporting aggressive gun control and divestment from fossil fuels. A person occasionally described in Russian state media as “our girlfriend Tulsi.”

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… pic.twitter.com/oAuTnxZldf
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022

The second comes from a lifelong Republican who held not one but two Cabinet positions in the Trump administration.

You know how we can convince Vladimir Putin to withdraw from Ukraine?

Give the Ukrainians the weapons they need to win.

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About Nick Catoggio

Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air. When Nick isn’t busy writing a daily newsletter on politics, he’s … probably planning the next day’s newsletter.

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