This dovetails into Sitman's Anti-Social Conservative essay - a bunch of atomized assholes who don't believe things can get better so they just find a semblance of community in rooting for the state to crush people slightly different from them rather than make any effort to understand or accommodate
This was the fastest I've ever gone to buy the Pregame Song That Makes Me Wanna Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
Hopefully WaPo doesn't shove him out the Greg Sargent shaped door at the end of his current contact
I'm so sorry for your loss; without knowing him or the rest of your family, or even you personally, all I can say is that you and all the joy, kindness, and insight you've brought to so many readers are a credit to him that lives on.
You consciously built your first novel on Starship Troopers, but how do you feel about the ideology that he has his characters directly espouse (asked as someone who otherwise really enjoyed Heinlein's book)?
Used to be a big fan of the 30-day mute on Facebook for this kinda middle ground
The time that really got me was when I was working at a nonprofit working with veterans but we had staff who couldn't give these recently separated vets any grace over the 'sir/ma'am' habit instead of immediately yelling at them about assuming gender. Be an ally without being an asshole, guys.
Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory has been a really interesting read on this schism and teaching me that these people do exist.