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I look at it differently. That cult has been growing for decades, and has been choosing more and more unhinged people to deify year by year.
Growing in online (and in ‘headspace’) presence. In the actual meatspace world it’s mostly 2016 with stupid flags. Current fascist regime notwithstanding.
The Republicans trotted out "family values" in the late 80s as a thinly veiled denigration of anyone not in a "traditional" (Narrator: It's not.) nuclear family.