Article snippet: Sen. Hawley recently started arguing with Greg Sargent, a writer for the Washington Post’s The Plum Line blog, regarding an article that said D.C. bureaucrats reportedly consider it a “punishment” to move to Missouri. The Missouri conservative contended he was merely defending his home state and that the left has engaged in “open contempt for the people of the heartland.” Sen. Hawley said that “only a smug, rich liberal elitist would say that defending your home is ‘phony pastoral posturing.'” by almost 20 points? This is why.” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) echoed Sen. Hawley’s sentiment, saying that the “elitism of the Swamp is out of control.” Ernst said that D.C. bureaucrats are “supposed to work for the American people– not the other way around.” Sargent has written leftist pieces at the Washington Post for years. In March 2016, Sargent called then-candidate Donald Trump a “nightmare nominee,” saying that not even white men like Trump. In March 2019, Sargent wrote that Trump is “likely emboldening hate groups through his rhetoric.” The Post columnist asked in the wake of the New Zealand terrorist attack, “Are Trump’s words emboldening white nationalist and white supremacist activity at home and abroad?” On Monday, Sargent said that the “we” should describe President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a new “Axis of Autocracy.” “New revelations show Trump is embracing illiberal autocrats abroad while corrupting our ... Link to the full article to read more