This comes at the same time that the conservative movement is targeting young women more broadly—from tradwife bullshit to MAHA misinformation about birth control.

The goal is convincing the next generation that the rapid erosion of their rights isn’t a political crisis, but a lifestyle upgrade.

I like how that tense lends itself to storytelling- a raconteur’s voice.

The narrator is the saddest fucker. Stunning effect of the present continuous tense - I wouldn’t have known what to call it. And then the last paragraph changes tense. Is it past continuous? What a story.

I seem to recall that Herb Caen wrote some San Francisco Chronicle columns about Jefferson. Not great books, but perhaps great writing.