And to be blunt, it's a demand coming from white nationalists, fascists, and reactionary Evangelicals. One of the American right's most treasured patterns is p

And to be blunt, it's a demand coming from white nationalists, fascists, and reactionary Evangelicals. One of the American right's most treasured patterns is precisely this: to engage in relentless obvious dog-whistling and nodding and "plausibly denial" celebration cultivation and signaling around ugly and reprehensible beliefs and intentions, which are not (yet) openly stated, and then to clutch pearls and bluster. And the cowed, coopted, and largely pwned, so-called MSM "meekly" backs away and as desired, forever couches egregious behavior, statements, and dog-whislting in weak tea language such as "allegedly" or convoluted passive language which declines to state the obvious. Me I will always look hard and close at why someone is incensed about this pattern being called out. The most typical answer, unremarkably, is that it's because they are aware they are complicit, yet they are still uncomfortable with that being in the air and light.