Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of …
When you listen to the life stories of rank-and-file american stalinists what stands out is how often they had their initial political development alone, amid a sea of liberals/conservatives, without even a single other leftist in sight.
Yes and this is why there are lots of tankies in rural areas whose main motivation is disgust in the conservatives around them. Not to say rural areas don’t also have anarchists but it’s so easy for someone, especially a marginalized person, in Trump country to go tank. This also plays into marginalized people who were raised conservative going tank.
(The reason I'm continuing to post quotes from this book is I saved quotes when I didn't have wifi and am slowly posting them)