More of this, please: Democrat uses Reagan to shred GOP's obsession with drag shows
Remember that time conservatives devoted approximately 92% of their free time to obsessing over the possibility—nay, certainty!—that one of the Teletubbies was a closeted gay man Pied Pipering Pixy Stix-besotted 2-year-olds into the Teletubbyland leather scene? Those were the days, huh? Sadly, today’s right-wing culture warriors make Jerry Falwell’s fire-and-brimstone scare-a-thons look like Sunday brunch at Liza Minnelli’s West Hollywood bungalow.
The new moral outrage du jour is the sudden emergence of drag performers, whom no one—particularly Kari Lake—knew existed until Republicans suddenly discovered them reading children’s books to children in seedy underground Berlin sex clubs children’s sections of libraries. And since kids simply can’t process the sight of a man in a dress—unless it’s the pope, or Sean Connery, or Rudy Giuliani flirting with Donald Trump (who himself is about 60% hairspray and foundation makeup by weight)—we simply need to make a huge deal out of this quotidian phenomenon that’s existed for millennia.
So that’s what Republicans are doing, because inflation is waning, President Joe Biden is flexing his bona fides on the world stage, and Mr. Potato Head simply doesn’t drive suburban swing voters to the polls the way he used to.
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