From Heisman Trophy winner to a sorry excuse for a political candidate, Herschel Walker has run the gamut of American fame. Once regarded as one of the greatest college football players of all time, Walker is now (somehow) the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia. Walker wants to “heavily invest” in the military, thinks that Biden’s 2020 election win was fraudulent and favors reducing business regulations because he hates poor people. When asked about gun laws Walker said that “what I like to do is see it and everything and stuff [sic].”

Walker’s fall from grace didn’t start when he decided to run for Senate, though. It started years ago when he was accused of “physically abusive and extremely threatening behavior” by his ex-wife. Walker’s son said on Twitter the following in reference to his father: “You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence … how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man’ … You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives.”

Walker’s political positions are horrific: he’s anti-environment, anti-women, anti-transgender rights, anti-same-sex marriage, pro-border-wall, pro-conspiracy theory and pro-economic deregulation. He also paid for his girlfriend’s abortion despite holding a notably anti-choice stance on abortion. In short, he’s a Republican. 

Walker’s legacy on the field is, in my eyes, erased. The legendary athlete Walker once was is long gone. No amount of awards for hitting other men as hard as humanly possible can ever make up for attempting to destroy the lives of Georgians and other Americans alike. His virulent, hateful, odious political views are destructive and should not be tolerated by Georgia’s voters or anyone else. We all deserve better than a washed-up running back.