As he attempts his comeback, Greitens has immersed himself in the “enemy of my enemy” negative ideology of the MAGA id—waving off all his scandals as hatchet jobs from craven political foes, then pointing to those supposed smears as evidence he’s the candidate Democrats truly dread. Don’t just judge candidates by their friends, his campaign manager Dylan Johnson said at an event last week—“judge ‘em by their enemies. You can tell a lot more about someone by who’s attacking them, ‘cause they only attack the ones that they fear.”

Unlike his opponents, Greitens hasn’t been in office in a few years, which means he hasn’t had the opportunity to make actual policy moves in service of the MAGA causes du jour. He has attempted to compensate by flinging himself headlong into a pair of true-believer issues: promising to vote Minority Leader Mitch McConnell out of Senate GOP leadership and pledging to investigate what really happened in the 2020 election.

Last Thursday night, Greitens proclaimed to an audience of about 100 at Branson’s Nashville Roadhouse Theater that “despite the mainstream media lies, despite the left’s craziness, and despite the corruption and cowardice of the weak RINO establishment who refuse to get to the truth, today more Americans recognize that there was massive fraud in the 2020 election than back in November of 2020.” Greitens spoke for only a few minutes; the bulk of the two-hour program was dedicated to a showing of the Dinesh D’Souza movie 2,000 Mules.