It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).
The usual projection is bad enough, but once again, Sam and company strolled into town intentionally trying to rile people up, and people realize that. Like so much of Muir's moral universe, it's the stance of someone who, to paraphrase Bomber Harris, lives their life in the naive belief that they will attack everybody, but no one will ever attack them.
Which, come to think of it, is the typical MAGA mindset these days. They get to troll everyone, but God forbid someone troll them back.
ReplyDeleteI also find it highly amusing how you have a crowd of these masked anarchist types instantly pop up on a small town street in Texas. I live in the Portland area, which is considered ground zero for this stuff, and can count on one hand how often I've seen the black-clad and masked Antifa...really only during a few major protests. So the fact that Teeter is apparently chock full of them seems like a right-wing fever dream to me.
By the way, we do have weekly (peaceful) protests near our local Tesla dealership out where I live, but the people who show up to those are retired teachers, a few old hippie activists...much less exciting to caricature and much more like ordinary everyday Americans who are unhappy with how things are going...not very convenient for Muir.
This is what Muir apparently imagines a college town is like. Which says so much, really.
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