After the insurrection, and barbed wire-topped fencing and troops in Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day, I reflected on Missouri’s 2018 Senate Republican primary. Republicans had a chance to pick a war hero, business owner, civic leader, family man and Christian author, Air Force Lt. Col. Tony Monetti. Instead – though Josh Hawley snubbed rank-and-file Republicans repeatedly – the majority elected Hawley. Having worked as Monetti’s campaign communications director, the election outcome to me seemed unbelievable on one hand and inevitable on the other. The reasons I still find the idea that Republicans picked Monetti over Hawley unbelievable include... • Montetti served nearly a quarter-century in the Air Force, flew a B-52 into combat 17 times during Desert Storm against Saddam Hussein’s forces, and as one of the first B-2 pilots, flew the stealth bomber into combat, showing patriotism not in easy words, bu...