Chronicling the most insane things likely presidential candidate Lindsey Graham has said.

The field of Republican presidential contenders does not want for hawks. Marco Rubio is already talking about attacking Iran. Jeb Bush has stacked his foreign policy team with his brother’s neoconservative advisers. Scott Walker wants to be “a leader that is willing to take a fight to them before they take the fight to us.” Even Rand Paul has proposed to increase defense spending. (As for the other side, Hillary Clinton has plenty of questions to answer about her support for military intervention.)

Now the flock is about to get a candidate to out-hawk all others: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is expected to announce his bid for the White House on June 1.

Graham’s foreign policy? Force can solve most problems. From his claims that Saddam Hussein was “flat-out lying” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that “chemical weapons in Syria today means nuclear weapons in the U.S. tomorrow,” to his assertion that ISIS “will open the gates of hell to spill out on the world,” Graham’s track record is a long, terrifying trail of hyperbole.

What should really frighten people is Graham’s eagerness to throw the Constitution out the window in the name of national security. Here are a few examples:

1. His support for the right to due process is selective: “If I’m president and you’re thinkin’ about joining al-Qaeda or ISIL – anybody thinkin’ about that? – I’m not going to call a judge, I’m going to call a drone, and we will kill you,” he said at the Iowa Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner fundraiser.

2. His support for the First Amendment is selective, too. “Free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war,” he said in 2011, regarding the burning of the Quran by Tennessee pastor Terry Jones.

3. He’s not big on the Sixth Amendment. During a Senate debate in 2011 about indefinite detention for citizens suspected of joining Al Qaeda he said, “When they say, ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them: ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’”

4. And yet he still thought the Iraq war was “an opportunity to demonstrate to the Arab world and others that the rule of law matters.”

5. He thinks Guantanamo Bay prison is “well run.”

6. He doesn’t only want to deploy the military all over the Middle East – he might use it against Congress, too. “And here’s the first thing I would do if I were president of the United States. I wouldn’t let Congress leave town until we fix this,” he said in March, referring to cuts in the defense and intelligence budgets. “I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to.”

7. He has said he is “glad” the NSA has the domestic surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden.

Graham’s entrance into the race is yet one more signal that the right is betting the easiest way to win is by scaring the pants off the American people.

ZOË CARPENTER is a Washington correspondent for The Nation.