If Republicans in the early 1980s had taken Barry Goldwater's advice and done to Jerry Falwell and his ilk what punks and metalheads typically do to neo-Nazis w

If Republicans in the early 1980s had taken Barry Goldwater's advice and done to Jerry Falwell and his ilk what punks and metalheads typically do to neo-Nazis when they show up at concerts (kick their fucking asses) we might not have to think of Lauren Boebert as anything but a gun nut who owns a theme bar and looks like she ought to do porn. In such a world, Mike Pence wouldn't have been Vice President of anything but his local NAMBLA chapter. But, no. Conservatives just had to give the Christian Right a nice sloppy rimjob.