Can January 6th Be the Pearl Harbor for the Cultural War?

So, now that Donald Trump seems to be looking for ways to drop out of the 2020 Presidential race that he dropped into a month ago, the Fake News can really start pumping up Ron DeSantis as the next embodiment of MAGA for the GOP. Apparently, in the last days before the mid-terms, when DeSantis won an easy re-election against Charlie Crist, his campaign sent out a mailer which had a blatant attack on gays.

Florida has a long and distinguished history of public figures trying to rile up the old people against a life-style that’s only become accepted just about everywhere since Anita Bryant started ranting about a pro-gay ordnance in Dade County nearly fifty years ago. The picture above was taken at a press conference in June 1977 when Bryant announced her campaign to ‘save the children’ from the threat posed by a gay life.

Anita actually got the ordnance repealed so she won that battle, except she also lost the war. Because her campaign created the first, organized pro-gay political movement in America, which no doubt played an important role in the momentous Obergefell v. Hodges decision back in 2015.

She recently lost another little skirmish when her granddaughter Sarah didn’t invite Grandma to her wedding last year. Why did grammaw sit home on this wonderful day? Because her granddaughter…