An important topic. A contribution of my own to the literature:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My politics are whatever this is. 🥴

If we extend the metaphor out a bit, it’s with noting that the Chicago Bears, whom Green was referring to, got all the way to the Super Bowl but in fact did *not* win that year. One hopes that our institutions will prove just strong enough to prevent the ultimate expression of this movement’s goals.

There’s been a fair amount of writing (some more recent than the linked piece) suggesting that Vance is anything but an outlier today. Along with tattoos, beards are increasingly associated with reactionary politics.

www.salon.com/2015/12/25/t...

There’s the everyday calling out of hypocrisy kind of comment, and then there’s the call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house deep and fundamental moral indictment kind of comment, and this is rather…the latter. Damn.

I would also add (now Nobel Laureate) Claudia Goldin’s pioneering work on this phenomenon- I teach this piece every semester. The analogy with higher ed here is compelling given that there is an evident correlation between enrollment demos & public support for HE

scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publi...

Tikkun!

Dude, you have no meeting.

I especially appreciate this frame (and approach!) given another oft-used meaning of the phrase:

www.footballarchaeology.com/p/the-origin...

FWIW, also born in Virginia.

TBH, and I cringe at how cynical a take this is, but the timing in particular of the new night at the garden and the other very nakedly bigoted comments by other surrogates makes me wonder if this isn’t an effort to draw out this exactly this reaction; to provoke a reactionary counter-mobilization.

🤭

With the introduction by John Schmitz, no less! Reminds one of that other bizarre piece of trivia that this particular right wing zealot was also the father of Mary Kay LeToureau

Here’s my novel contribution- and relevant to the extent that punks and metalheads might be grouped together:

x.com/hoosierblues...

Btw, the clever invocation of early Floyd in the handle suggests that maybe your tastes- musical and otherwise- we’re not so much aligned with those metalheads, rite?