Trump picked Herschel Walker to be the running back of the hapless and defunct New Jersy Generals of the USFL, and Trump picked a loyal but deeply flawed Herschel Walker to oppose Sen. Rev. Warnock, as fine a man to ever live, as the Republican candidate from Georgia for the United States Senate.

There are several problems here for the MAGA men. Republicans know that Walker is so flawed, both with baggage and current ability to engage the media and an audience that he’s all but unelectable in purple Georgia. Walker just came out with “no exceptions,” not even the health of the mother on abortion, turning off more women. And Walker has a very disturbing past of domestic violence and mental instability. There are some of us, including those Georgia Republicans, that believe Walker continues to show signs of trouble with his mental hygiene.

Thus, author and filmmaker Don Winslow has made Walker one of his targets in preserving a Democratic Senate. This is a must hold seat for the Democrats and Winslow is willing to put his talents and money to work to support Warnock. It is very easy to support a man like the compassionate, deeply intellectual, and gifted speaker Raphael Warnock.

He put a gun to his wife's temple and told he was going to blow her brains out.

He fantasized about killing a man for delivering a car late.

Meet the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate

Stop #HerschelWalkerForSenate pic.twitter.com/2YUFPGQaFA

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) May 12, 2022

We are queasy about holding past mental illness against a person but holding a weapon to a head is not just mental illness, it’s also felonious and sickly violent, obviously. But as noted above, Walker is unable to convince many of us that he’s recovered. He continues to lie about his past at UGA and his business practices since.

Winslow is right to paint Walker into a corner to have to confront his past and whether he’s well even now.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman