Mark Barabak: “Today, it seems hard to reconcile the nutty former UC Irvine professor who schemed to steal the 2020 election for President Trump with the candidate who inveighed against ‘fearmongering’ politicians and ‘the extreme right wing of the Republican Party.’ Who disparaged Rush Limbaugh and excoriated Pete Wilson’s 1996 presidential bid, saying the former California governor and San Diego mayor hoped ‘to cynically ride a tidal wave of white male rage and anti-immigration fervor right down the Potomac and into the White House.'”
“But there is a through-line, say those who have known and observed Navarro for decades: a monumental self-regard, a bottomless hunger for attention — he once showed up for a mayoral campaign event wearing nothing but a Speedo — and an utter lack of grounding principles.”
