I’m trying to think of four words less appealing to me in American politics than “Eric Swalwell’s erotic poetry” and drawing a blank.
“Vice President Hunter Biden?” Kind of implausible, also kind of funny. “SCOUTUS Justice Judge Judy?” I mightn’t mind that, but also kind of outlandish. And I suppose I could just think of the grossest things possible and then attach candidate names to them, but that’s cheating.
“Eric Swalwell’s erotic poetry,” however, is unfortunately a very real thing. See, the representative is running for governor of California — and while Gavin Newsom has managed to tawdry up the office a bit, he still doesn’t rank up there with Swalwell, a man who’s been plausibly accused of having asexual relationship with a Chinese spy, in terms of outright scumminess.
And now, because I had to read it, you get to read his college-age poetry about “kissing till veins imploded and exploded,” as well as his support for convicted cop-killers and such — ironic because he tries to sell himself as the son of a police officer to put a law-and-order patina on his progressive bonafides.
TheU.K. Daily Mailgot hold of the old columns from his time at Campbell University in North Carolina, where he wrote a series of columns called “The Radically Poetic.”
In one March 2000 piece, published by the paper on Monday, Swalwell lamented that “Rich White Guy Will Win Presidential Race.”
“See, I don’t get excited when presidential elections come around, and to tell you the truth, I don’t vote in them either,” he wrote. “I’m not a Republican, nor am I a Democrat, is there really a difference besides an elephant and a donkey?”
Ooh, wow. An incredible, original insight: The establishment two-party systemdoestend to produce candidates who look like each other in terms of policy and results. Now, the Republican establishment has basically kowtowed to the Democratic establishment and the progressive wing of the party, and our Eric is grifting off of that while lamenting that Donald Trump and outsiders took over the GOP.
The articles, which were exhumed by conservative filmmaker Joel Gilbert — who makes no bones about the fact that he wants to derail Swalwell’s attempts to get himself elected suzerain of Sacramento.
Somewhat more controversially, he referred to convicted cop-killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier as “political prisoners” who had been done in by America’s “systematically corrupt justice system.”
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