When folks on one side of the spectrum call folks on the other side weird, you can generally find and least a little bizarritude ib their closet.
Take today’s Republican Party, for example.
A generation ago, they were the very picture of macho — both real and false. Vice President Dick Cheney shot an old man in the face and made him apologize for getting in the way of Cheney’s shot.
Now the only Republican to follow Cheney as vice president spent two minutes in a debate with a fly resting on his scalp and spent a January afternoon running and hiding from Republicans who wanted to hang him.
And the guy who wants to follow him accuses Democrats of being childless cat ladies while he has carnal relations with sofas.
Then there’s right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, who looks so unfeminine that she has threatened so sue anyone who says she is transsexual.
Coulter peaked about 20 years ago and is struggling so hard to be relevant that she went far beyond the pale and accused Gus Walz, the 17-year-old neurodivergent son of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, of being “weird.”
That was too much even for Fox News. One host, Howard Kurtz, said Coulter “should be in prison” after she called Gus Walz “weird” for crying during his father’s acceptance speech.
Part of Coulter’s problem is that the generation of right wing women following her doesn’t appear to have any guard rails at all.
Whether it’s Lauren Boebert of Colorado masturbating her date during a theatrical performance in Denver or the queen of GOP feminine macho Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, the new generation makes Coulter look dull.
In the end, it can be summed up by one word.
Weird.