Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“As the story goes, a group of ladies in small-town Missouri all voted for the party promising mass kidnapping squads, but have been left reeling after the kidnapping squads kidnapped one of their own friends …. the ladies want to help their friend, and they also want it known that, while they voted for the party that repeatedly promised to round up and mass deport tens of millions of people just like their now-detained friend, they did not vote for to happen to their friend, specifically. And then the usual online back-and-forth began. First there were those who pointed out that whatever these ladies might tell themselves, they actually very much did vote for it. These pointer-outers were scolded for this uncharitable reaction by those who pointed out that progressive purity tests do not help us expand the broad political coalitions we need, that we ought to ‘win the middle’ …” (06/08/25)