When Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was asked why he flew the totem of election deniers, an upside-down flag, over his house just after Jan. 6, he said little about principles or democracy or even Trump. He said his wife raised the flag to get back at a neighbor who called her a cunt.
Whether among elites in the tony parts of the Jersey Shore or in the rural counties from which so many reenactors hail, there is an almost urgent need to mark yourself as MAGA or anti-MAGA — or risk being mistaken for that other kind of white person, on the other side of the political divide.
Closeness with the enemy in white cohorts results in everyone’s trying to signal what side they’re
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