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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Dan Crenshaw [1]
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Date: 2022-07-09
U.S. House Rep. Dan Crenshaw, of Texas 2nd Congressional District has managed to ignore science, which would normally endear him to the right... but he also makes statements to indicate he doesn't worship the ground Donald Trump walks on, leaving him vulnerable on both sides of the aisle.
Welcome to what is the 1118th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling the sitting U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 2nd Congressional District, Dan Crenshaw, who was first elected to office in the 2018 elections after having his profile boosted for several years by appearances on Fox News as a military analyst, cashing in on his prior career as a Navy Seal. He ran to replace Ted Poe for his seat in Congress in 2018, barely winning the GOP Primary by 155 votes over Kathaleen Wall, an absolute loon nominated by Ted Cruz.
Now, we’re not going to follow in the footsteps of an idjit like Pete Davidson and mock Crenshaw for losing an eye as part of his military service (seriously, you’re not helping, Pete), because frankly, he seems to make quite a mockery of himself, like when he made a political ad to support Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in their Senate runoffs that looked like it was a rejected trailer for a Steven Seagal movie with himself photoshopped in (and clearly, it helped Loeffler and Perdue out a ton, LOL).
Instead, we would like to point out that if Crenshaw truly believes that veterans deserve respect once they return from their service, maybe he should practice what he preaches. Because, y’know, he was implicated in a campaign to feed false information to the former Director of Veterans’ Affairs, Robert Wilkie, to discredit the allegations of a Navy veteran and House staff member who alleged she was sexually assaulted at a VA Clinic in Washington, D.C. in September of 2019. Two months later, Crenshaw allegedly began approaching Sec. Wilkie to claim the accuser was a fraud, and when Crenshaw faced a potential ethics investigation for his attempts to silence an accuser, of course he pretended to be the real victim and act like he’d done nothing wrong.
But that isn’t the only time Crenshaw did his fellow veterans dirty, like say this moment in September of 2019 where he fled from two fellow veterans, one a Purple Heart member, for supporting Donald Trump during his first impeachment, and he ran and hid in an elevator to avoid discussing it with them.
Truly brave, Dan.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dan Crenshaw repeatedly refused to wear a mask in public, and kept attacking Democrats for trying to do anything to mitigate the spread of the disease, insisting they were “exaggerating the threat”, because clearly, it’s not a deadly virus that would rack up a body count of over a million Americans so far or anything.
Crenshaw frequently voices support for some of the worst causes on the right, including encouraging Kyle Rittenhouse to sue the media for reporting on him having killed two people, and literally offering the Canadian truckers who protested mask mandates in their country by parking trucks by asking them to apply to emigrate to the United States and get trucking jobs here (presumably so they could try and shut down the American government the same way).
His disdain for science, though, is something to behold, as he has asked for Americans to consider “both sides” of the argument against climate change, even though one side is 98-99% of those scientists, and the side he wants to give equal time to is a small minority. Oh, and he deems solar and wind power as “silly solutions” to providing energy, because OF COURSE any Republican from Texas would say that.
Turning to current events *cough*Roe v. Wade *cough*, it’s probably a good time to remind everyone that not only did Crenshaw support Roe v. Wade being overturned, and that he felt “abortion should be decided by the states”, but he is also a Personhood supporter who believes life begins at conception, so good luck getting birth control if he gets his way, ladies!
Crenshaw’s Congressional voting record looks like you would expect:
Now, here’s the thing… in January of 2022, Crenshaw’s luck in conservative circles started taking a turn for the worse. First, it was at a Tea Party event where he threw a fit because he was directly quoted as having said Jesus was a fictional character (RUH ROH for Texas conservatives). Throughout most of his second term in Congress, he’s been fighting with Marjorie Taylor-Greene in social media, who goes full nuclear LARGE MARJE when he shows any support for Ukraine and doesn’t show proper fealty to daddy Putin like Trump Republicans do. In June of 2022, shortly after white nationalist Tucker Carlson followed up on MTG’s insanity, and on his daily White Power-Power Hour on Fox News, referred to Rep. Crenshaw as “Eyepatch McCain” because he voted for that funding bill to support Ukraine in their war with Russia, Dan Crenshaw and his staffers were confronted Boys at the Texas Republican Party convention and harassed by members of the Proud Boys, and people were shouting that he was a “Globalist RINO”. What could be irking the hardcore fascist wing of the party about Dan-O?
In “no true Scotsman” form, Dan Crenshaw has said things publicly like “Donald Trump isn’t the Devil, but he isn’t Jesus, either”, voiced his displeasure with the House Freedom Caucus, and after the attack on the Capitol, was openly critical of Republicans who stoked the fires to lead the attack, while still being a vocal supporter of Adam Kinzinger for his impeachment vote and joining the Jan. 6th committee.
Yet, he still voted against impeaching Trump, because is would “cause division” in the country. He’s only brave enough to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Dan Crenshaw, based on all that we’ve listed, is far from a “moderate”, he’s just not “as overtly a deranged **hole” as his counterparts, and that’s the only reason they seem like they might be searching high and low for someone to challenge him to the right in 2024. Had he drawn the ire of Carlson and the Proud Boys prior to his 2022 GOP Primary in March, he might have been in more trouble. But in November 2022, he faces Democratic candidate Robin Fulford, who we’re hoping can pull an upset if Republicans pull the rug out from under Crenshaw, and she catches all the Democratic momentum and flips a district that’s supposedly got a +4 Republican lean, and not nearly as friendly as it was last election cycle.
Right now, this far out, and with so many dangling plot threads hanging over American politics, we have no idea how to predict what will end up happening. But seeing him bounced out of office for Fulford would definitely be a indicator for how things will look come 2023.
One Year Ago, July 8th, 2021: Daniel Wood (AZ)
Two Years Ago, July 8th, 2020: Joey Saladino (NY)
Three Years Ago, July 8th, 2019: Jazmina Saveedra (CA)
Four Years Ago, July 8th, 2018: Gary Emineth (ND)
Five Years Ago, July 8th, 2017: Wendy Long (NY)
Six Year Ago, July 8th, 2016: Justin Harris (AR)…2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, July 8th, 2015: Justin Harris (AR)… Original Profile
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