Having grown up in a GOP home, and gotten degrees in physics because my folks taught me to take on challenges, I can agree it's emotionally hard to be GOP in academia
Which is natural because you're hostile to well established physics, and academics don't famously respect demands to deny reality
Which is natural because you're hostile to well established physics, and academics don't famously respect demands to deny reality
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You just can't be a mainstream conservative in the US and forcefully acknowledge the disastrous effect of industrial emissions on climate
In my experience, people who have never lived inside the religious-right can't really understand just how *hostile* they are to...so many things. And this was even before MAGA.