slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's easy from the perspective of post-rural-america to forget how oppressive the stultifying internal logic of "we don't believe that" is.
My mistrust of most media reports about the revanchist base are grounded in understanding about how ranks-closing the overlapping faiths are. Politics might have been separable in the 50s, in some places, where that was forced...but now? There's no gravity to respectability. Buckley is truly dead and gone.