Coincidentally, the students at Badger basketball games refer to themselves as Grateful Red and they wear tie dyed shirts. Should see a few of those in the stands in Autzen.
Yep, that happened too. It’s all part of his reality tv show presidency. It’s not about substance, it’s all about appearances. Like how he didn’t care about Zelensky actually investigating the Bidens, he just wanted him to announce that there was an investigation. That’s all he needs to con the deplorable rubes that support him.
This isn’t surprising. Remember in the early days of the pandemic when he wanted to keep a cruise ship full of sick passengers from docking in San Francisco so it wouldn’t raise our infection rate?
https://www.businessinsider.com/princess-cruise-passenger-dies-coronavirus-ship-heads-for-san-francisco-2020-3
Truman ordered the desegregation of the military and to his credit, Eisenhower carried that out. But Ike hated the gays. From Eisenhower to Nixon to Reagan, both Bushes and Trump, racism and bigotry has been the one constant in GOP ideology during the postwar era. Ike may be a bit of an exception because I’m not sure the Dems didn’t also hate the gays back then. But ever since FDR passed the Civil and Voting Rights Acts, the Republicans have been appealing to the racial and cultural anxieties of middle class white people in order to get them to vote against their own economic interests. Party ideology has evolved somewhat, but that one plank has persisted unchanged.