Because too many people tolerating that in themselves and others on some level is definitely on the list of reasons why…

There’s also a less than zero chance she too lusts for teenagers on some level.

That looks like an old Warhammer 40k picture. Back when the hatred for Reagan and Thatcher was unsubtle and everywhere.

And also the fact too many people (education level or none) just cannot be bothered to go to a 6:30pm School Board Meeting to change anything else I could detail making this happen.

See also the main reason people won’t vote: “Ugh, I have to go wait in line in the morning!!!”

Pre-Reading the Article, I’d say: “Sounds like flattering people’s egos dressed up as a ‘cost effective’, ‘balanced budget’ teaching.”

“You got the sense of it, and that’s good enough. Who’s gonna say otherwise, you’re awesome. They’re not!”

I think
1. The people who know what happened are the people who were in the room.
But
2. The NYT has lost trust in their integrity and that's their fault. You can't pester people into not being worried about how bad the integrity fails are.

“There’s a difference between an 8 year old and a 15 year old…”, tells me A LOT about this person. Probably more than she assumes.

Mess 2: the Christian hard right is having some explosive sex scandals at the exact same time. Things are looking pretty grim over at the Assemblies of God.

Now the Christian Zionists at Heritage are furious (they can't afford for Nazis to wipe out the Jews, they need the Jews to spark the apocalypse).

The rest of the conservative establishment is freaked out realizing that a lot of DC staffers are Fuentes fans-- literal Nazis, in other words.

In the midst of all that, his coalition is fragmenting.

Perhaps most crucially, his base-- the hard right-- is an absolute mess, in two ways:

Mess 1: Tucker Carlson platformed a popular Nazi, and the establishment hard right (Heritage Foundation) defended that choice.

His poll numbers are tanking. Last month's #NoKings was the biggest protest in US history.

And that was before the poop video, the Gatsby party, razing the East Wing, bailing out Argentina, starving SNAP recipients, ruining air travel, and Tuesday's mortifying (for him) election.

The biggest is that the clock is running out on midterms, and they have not laid the groundwork for theft.

Redistricting isn't going to be the magic bullet they thought it would. They'll try poll place intimidation as a last resort but I think it's a long shot.