UFOs And The Right
I think the US right has lost the ability to think about UFOs, and that'a a problem. The History Channel has made a lot of money off them with Ancient Aliens , Project Blue Book , UFO Hunters , The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch , and more, but they're entertainment. I like Fringe and zombie apocalypses, too. The problem starts when people take them seriously. The fact is that there's just too much in the way of seriously believing in space aliens, starting with Fermi's Paradox , that if extraterrestrial life is so likely, we must have seen evidence of it by now. But just the other day, I ran into a piece by Jazz Shaw at Hot Air, One WSJ editor's war on UFOs . Note the subdivision we're beginning to see on the right: The Wall Street Journal was the intellectual sponsor of supply-side economics and neoconservative foreign policy that underpinned Reaganism, while more recently it's been never-Trump. Hot Air, on the other hand, has been both never-Trump bu...