Rufo’s army are on their way

The anti-LGBTQ+ moral panic that was heightened by Ron DeSantis got another iteration, as DeSantis lickspittle and Very Serious Intellectual Chris Rufo spent one whole weekend researching and writing a 6-paragraph opus purporting to prove that sexual abuse is an extremely widespread problem in schools that it will take an entirely new layer of bureaucracy to address. (Really.)

Obviously, Rufo is a farcical imitation of an intellectual, but it would be wrong to ignore him. The propaganda campaigns he and his authoritarian allies are running are having very serious real-world effects:

Here you go – this is what Chris Rufo and Christina Pushaw and Marjorie Taylor Greene have created, an America where a man tells a 6-year-old boy his parents are pedophiles because they're gay. https://t.co/JqvN2o5146— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) April 13, 2022

Mission accomplished! And of course, the resignations created by Texas trying to force investigators to kidnap trans children because their parents want to give them appropriate care will make it harder to stop actual child abuse, but nobody in the Rufo/Josh Hawley/Jim Jordan/Roy Moore extended universe actually gives a shit.

Meanwhile, in Great Moments in Murc’s Law:

It was inevitable Bari Weiss would end up as a hype clown for Chris Rufo. https://t.co/ro3bD3JsdZ— Roy Edroso (@edroso) April 9, 2022