Either that or they have friends/loved ones/a job that they know holds horrible views and don't want to stir the pot. I think Resist Libs and especially Leftists can go too far in the other direction though and just cut ties too readily over their views.

Yeah Ledger had a good slapstick theatricality to him, a proper trained clown.

The only first amendment path that would work here would be getting the banned books considered obscene which is the angle Project 2025 is working to try and get anything promoting LGBT folks declared to be.

Right, though important to distinguish that Israel not vigorously supporting the PA against Hamas 20 years ago doesn't mean Hamas only exists due to Israeli backing. A problem they could have prevented from worsening but instead allowed to worsen.

it starts with getting the PA in civilian control in Gaza but it's clear at this point Bibi's just going to keep the fight going until ???

Both Square RPGs - Final Fantasy III (the DS remake) and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2. Awful final boss gauntlets in both cases.

Fragile is an understatement. Mali, Burkina Faso, and Sudan are all actively at civil war to some degree, Niger with a recent coup, Chad with high tensions between their authoritarian government and the main opposition.

and galaxy gas depending on exactly how young you are.

Between stories like this and the endorsement it does feel like a pivot on their part. Not nearly the degree to which they should treat Trump, of course, but they smell a loser and want to get out ahead of it.

It comes from two different strands of conservatism, the right wing of the old GOP concerned about Capital Uber Alles and then the Dixiecrats who were descended from the most hardcore Jacksonian Democrats (so hardcore that Jackson himself hated them, a la Calhoun and the Nullifiers)