I had no idea how scary Ann Coulter is [View all]

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I heard her for the first time on the Skullduggery podcast that got all the recent headlines about her calling Trump a lunatic. https://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-lunatic-trump-challenged-2020-right-165049018.html

Wow! She’s worse than Kelly Ann. But it was scary too. I understand why she has such a following. And when I googled her book Adios Amigos I found an average of 4+ stars on Amazon and Goodreads. Of course, most people who read her books are fans. Then I read a smattering of those positive reviews and suddenly I was down a rabbit hole. I felt alone and overwhelmed. I know I’m not properly immune to this stuff, living in a blue college town. The polarization today is just amazing and scary.

It made me reflect on the difference between me and these people (I should mention I’m white). One thing is that my grandparents on one side were immigrants and my grandparents on the other side lived in ethnic enclaves. And I went to school where whites were in a minority. So I’m more comfortable around hyphenated Americans. They’re more interesting, nuanced, layered. Coulter fans probably have very little experience with immigrants or ethnic minorities or they kept themselves apart by virtue of their class or religious affiliations.

Coulter’s vision of America sounds like a true hell to me. I know much of what she’s doing is performative and attention getting. But she is way too good at it.