When Dan Crenshaw got elected to Congress in a Houston-area district, in 2018, he was quickly anointed as one of the Republican Party’s rising stars. Only 34, he came armed with a Hollywood screenwriter’s dream of a political résumé. He had a master’s degree from Harvard Kennedy School, spoke fluent Spanish, and, most crucially, had served as an officer in the Navy SEALs, suffering a horrific injury from an IED blast in Afghanistan that destroyed his right eye and badly damaged his left. Then, a few days after his election, he made a well-received appearance on Saturday Night Live. (Cast member Pete Davidson had made a tasteless joke about his injury, and the show was trying to make amends.) It wasn’t hard to imagine Crenshaw,…The post Dan Crenshaw Fought the Far Right and Lost an Election. He Still Has a Few Choice Words. appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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