Political media tends to do this thing where they take conclusions drawn from itself and project those conclusions onto voters (i.e. "I hate Trump, ergo, they will also hate Trump," or "I hate some culture war issue, ergo, it will be a winning issue for Republicans).
Meanwhile, voters, who largely have other things to do, vote for myriad reasons!
What struck me about these episodes was thinking about Heydrich within the context of both Nazism and his own time, as a person who engaged in evil for careerist purposes and did so effectively.
(There's also a lengthy discussion of the film "Conspiracy" which is very good and will cause you to sit staring at a wall for several hours afterwards. )
There's a piece going around about how liberals have moved further left than conservatives have moved right -- which could absolutely be true! But I do think that such data tends to be used to argue "THEY'RE MAKING US BE THIS WAY"
(Especially since it really depends on how you define "left" and "right" and which cultural issues one uses as a marker, if any. Like, conservatives have not, as I've seen, gotten more limited-government-y since 2015.)
Sending a letter demanding someone get fired for saying something one doesn’t like and then posting that letter on the internet to score political points
Notably, the Air Force Academy is for adults, but apparently very sensitive adults, seeing as they’re at the …. Air Force Academy.
This person is urging a college professor to be fired for writing an op-ed in the Washington Post he didn’t like, which seems like something @TheFIREorg would be very very very interested in if it were to take place.
A certain well-known conservative author argued in 1986 that everyone with HIV should be tattooed on the forearm (if they used intravenous drugs) or on the buttocks (if they were "homosexuals")
This is a fascinating combination of "nationalization of politics" and "parents getting mad about things" and "schools contracting out educational priorities to outside entities" and "parents getting mad about things, again"