Bar Flies and Bibles: The Keys to the MAGA Movement
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." — President Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Moyers Mace tactical missile being loaded on trailer - photo by the author It was early afternoon and several obviously retired, white male, uninhibited lunch patrons were slowly wandering out of the American Legion in the sleepy little Central Florida town not too far south of the Villages. Some of them paused on their way to the parking lot and watched us as we swung an old Mace tactical missile onto a flatbed trailer. The jet-propelled cruise missile, hanging high in the air in a sling from a huge crane, had stood on a crumbling brick pedestal in front of the building since 1967. It was brought up from Orlando Air Force Base when the base closed. We were all veteran missilemen who had volunteered to disassemble...