FLAGS, FLOORFIGHTS, and FIELDGOALS

There is a reason for the distractions

In the last few days there was social media outrage over Justice Samuel Alito’s upside down U.S. flag (indicating a state of distress), the proto-catfight between Occasional Cortex and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the House floor, and Kansas City Swift’s kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement address where he praised traditional families, motherhood, and chastised the Rutabaga for pretending to be a Catholic. What do they reveal about the current state of America . . . and the presidential race?