Clay Stockton Profile picture
Dad, writer, ex-lawyer. Personal views only. E pluribus unum.
Oct 17, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Mini thread on this sign o’ the times: hundreds lining up to swat @ellievhall because they can’t differentiate between “political” and “partisan.” A nation so addicted to brutish tribalism that any statement or symbol bearing on our common civic life 1/ must be crushed down into red or blue dust, and snorted. For those enraged about Trump’s authoritarianism, it’s not just tragic but ironic: what authoritarians do is make sure everything is expressly political. Everything! So when the stainless mobs of wokeness come after 2/