Essay: The rural rotting of democracy
I’ve avoided writing this essay for at least three years but my stomach gnaws. My town, an epitome of rural America, boasts not one but two January 6, 2021 insurrectionists. And for the noisy one—Hank Munzer, it’s always a boast. He introduces himself that way. The other insurrectionist, years younger, comes from an ostensibly Christian […]