STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Eric Swalwell
His fall was inevitable because vanity is brittle. If ambition could be decanted in a laboratory flask, aerated with vanity, sprayed with hair product, and marched directly from student government into a television studio, the result would look very much like Eric Swalwell. Born in Sac City, Iowa, and raised in Dublin, California, Swalwell was […] The post The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Eric Swalwell appeared first on StoneZone .
His fall was inevitable because vanity is brittle. If ambition could be decanted in a laboratory flask, aerated with vanity, sprayed with hair product, and marched directly from student government into a television studio, the result would look very much like Eric Swalwell. Born in Sac City, Iowa, and raised in Dublin, California, Swalwell was the son of a police officer and grew up in a household that seems to have prized order, respectability, advancement, and the polished appearances of upward mobility. He played sports, pursued the usual credentials, studied law, and followed that now drearily familiar route by which modern mediocrities are transformed into public men. Student government. Local office. Prosecutor’s résumé. Camera…Open