Reacher's Alan Ritchson has some thoughts on old schoolmate Matt Gaetz: "That motherfucker"

This becomes very clear in the most eye-catching bit of the interview, when it’s noted that Ritchson was, once upon a time, a Florida classmate of Matt Gaetz, the quintuply-elected House Rep. whose notable descriptors probably include things that aren’t “getting accused of paying for sex with teenagers while in office by the House Ethics Committee,” but, hey, that’s the one everybody talks about. Ritchson does not mince words, in the GQ interview, on the topic of Gaetz: “That motherfucker. We are adversaries,” he declares. “It’s shocking to me that the panhandle of Florida continues to vote for somebody—knowing everything we know about him and the promises that he’s made behind closed doors about pardoning certain criminals—he’s just not a good dude!”

Again, given that Reacher is an aggressively apolitical show—from our observations, Jack Reacher’s values are roughly that, if you fuck with him, his family, friends, dogs, or innocent people, he will shoot you a million times, and that’s kind of it—it’s a little surprising that Ritchson is so uninhibited in expressing his opinions on America’s current political garbage fire. But that’s apparently the man, who goes on to suggest that “There’s part of me that wants to get into politics to outdo somebody like him for good, and there’s part of me that’s like, I’m not duplicitous enough to succeed in politics. There are certain people that do a good job of staying true to who they are, but they’re ineffective. I think Bernie Sanders is a hero. But it’s like, what has he accomplished?” Which, look: We are not going to Alan Ritchson for in-depth political analysis. We go to him to be extremely big, and kind of joyfully terrifying, and—we have just discovered tonight—to hear him call Matt Gaetz a motherfucker. Man understood the assignment.