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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kevin McDermott

Kevin McDermott: Why I’m voting for an unfit demagogue in this year’s Republican Senate primary

Eric Greitens is the worst of the worst. He earns the title just by virtue of the credible sexual assault allegations that drove him out of the Missouri governor’s office in 2018.

But wait, there’s more! You want chameleonlike hypocrisy? This is a former Democrat and humanitarian activist who turned into a fire-breathing right-winger the millisecond it served his political ambitions. You want campaign finance shenanigans? Greitens was criminally charged for that, until his resignation as governor made it go away. You want testosterone-addled stunt-politics? Go to YouTube and check out his infamous “machine gun” campaign ad from 2016.

It really is difficult to imagine anyone more demonstrably unfit for public office than Eric Greitens.

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