07-16-2021, 02:30 PM
Missouri outside of the St. Louis and Kansas City metro areas, perhaps Columbia and Jefferson City, and majority-black communities in the Bootheel (the southeastern corner of the state) is very much Trump country. The shark is circling the beach, and the corrupt officials have not closed the beach because the community "needs" the tourist dollars. OK, technically speaking, Branson is not a beach resort, but it apparently did not have to shut down.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.