Something about covid gave people a license for completely antisocial and terrible behavior. It was already underway before but covid, and the way we framed it, really really accelerated some ugly social fallout I’m afraid.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) February 21, 2022
It’s the renascence of religion feeling perpetuating itself in and through nominally secular forms. It’s not a specific creed, but a general religious expression that liberals have long denied themselves as “irrational.”
A lot of people really want to be Church Ladies (even if they are men), but in many places and US subcultures there’s not a well-established role for that any longer. A lot of what you see is people reinventing this avocation from scratch — and it’s no more pleasant when it’s the libs doing it, either.