Matthew McConaughey has been a lot of things over the course of several careers: he’s been a beach bum, an immortal wizard, the star of The Beach Bum, a guy who runs Lincoln, a bourbon spokesman, one rom-com icon, a guy in a Chevelle picking up high school girls, a God visiting from the heavens to enjoy our human olympics, and of course, a distinguished professor at the University of Texas. Still, your cowboy heart desires most. Something that can really leave a lasting impact on the beautiful big rock that we call America, or at least a more lasting impact than your prizes, your millions of dollars, your family and your aircraft carrier full of elegant Lincoln cars … something how policy.
Yes, if you felt a shiver of aching bones run through the air, that something, it wasn’t the climate change that generated another polar vortex. It was, in fact, the scary echo of another celebrity deciding that his specific set of skills (which include “looking presentable”, “reading” and “being famous”) would translate perfectly into a career in politics. But hey, it worked for Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Trump, who said it can’t work for Matthew McConaughey too? He is one teacher, and not in a fake college that he invented as tax havens. The University of Texas is a real place! It doesn’t just exist on paper!
Anyway, McConaughey briefly touched on the idea of running for governor of Texas in 2022 during a performance at the Balanced Voice podcast (which is run by a non-profit anti-crime organization in Houston and not by a Republican think tank, despite the name), and although he did not say that a shift to politics is a sure thing, he said that this potential campaign was “a real consideration”, which means that he probably same thinking about it, possibly shirtless on a beach or shirtless in a Lincoln. Weekly entertainment grades that McConaughey recently told Stephen Colbert in The Late Show that he had no plans to enter politics, referring to it as a “broken business”, but it seems that he at least softened the idea.
As to why he might be attracted to a political career, McConaughey says he has a lot of “wisdom to share” that is “obvious” to him, but apparently useful to “young people”. He says he is interested in exploring “leadership teaching positions” that will allow him to help other people, especially the younger ones, which is at least a more noble position to possibly pursue a political career than “I want to help my idiot friends. and stupid kids get rich “(which is obviously not a specific reference for anyone in particular). We still have a year or more before McConaughey’s political campaign has to take off, so we’ll have to wait and see how it goes.