Avaline and Isabela have the best friendship of any pair of friends in the franchise.
The only people liberals hate more than they hate conservative are progressives.
Which means that, by extension, “illegal” immigrants are illegal only because they’re missing some paperwork. So conservatives want to deport 20 million people over some fucking TPS report bullshit.
What Vance and Dennis have in common is a deep-seated, visceral belief that democracy didn’t do anything for them, that they clawed their way out through their own overwhelming merit, and a fascist state with them as a vanguard is better than a democracy formed of hypocritical liberals.
This is kind of a hobbyhorse for me, but one of the more interesting things about "Mr. C" is that he was also Black, passing as white; something Thompson likely knew, but that Mr. C's (aka Lawrence Dennis) far-right fellow travellers decidedly didn't.
The original, for anyone looking to reread it: harpers.org/archive/1941...
HOLY SHIT
Bless your stupid little heart.