The extraordinary power of 'Let's Go Brandon'
Oct 27, 2021 22:06:57 GMT -5
Post by OmegaMan on Oct 27, 2021 22:06:57 GMT -5
The extraordinary power of 'Let's Go Brandon'
October 27, 2021
By Andrea Widburg
I never wear clothes with logos on them. However, when I saw that I could buy a "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirt for only $20, I couldn't resist. Today, when I went to my local outlet mall and then to Costco, I wore that shirt. I live in the Southeast, in an area with a sizeable Black population and a lot of Democrats. Still, there are conservatives here, so I expected some recognition for the shirt. What I didn't expect was the happiness with which my shirt would be greeted.
At the outlet mall, a young Black woman, maybe in her late 20s, came hurrying up to me. "I love your shirt," she said. "Where did you get it?" I explained that I'd bought it online. We agreed that its subtlety made it especially appealing. From there, the brief conversation drifted to Ben Shapiro (she's a big fan, while I'm more of a Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles person) and ended with fond farewells on both our parts.
My next stop was Costco, where the shirt again elicited happy praise, although this time from White people only. A young woman with a small child in her cart told me that she loved my shirt. Two grizzled older men liked it, too. When I checked out, the clerk said, "I love your shirt." She also told me that the gas station she passes on the way to work increased the price of gas by ten cents overnight.
The whole experience was so uplifting that I'm planning to make the shirt my standard garb for shopping. The great thing about it is that it's not "in your face." Despite the Washington Post trying to argue that the phrase, with its allusion to "Eff Joe Biden," is as offensive as the years of obscenities and death wishes that leftists hurled at Bush and Trump, the fact remains that, outside of political junky circles, most Democrats haven't yet grokked to the meaning behind "Let's Go Brandon." It's the conservative secret handshake. We bond over it, knowing that even if we're in a blue town, we're not alone.
The great thing is that I'm not the only one who's bringing "Let's Go Brandon" out of the stadiums and onto the streets. The Marine who wrestled a gun away from the would-be armed robber appeared at his award ceremony wearing his "Lets Go Brandon [sic]" shirt. When New York's police, firefighters, and teachers, representing all sorts of races, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest vaccine mandates, one of the things they chanted was "Let's Go Brandon":
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October 27, 2021
By Andrea Widburg
I never wear clothes with logos on them. However, when I saw that I could buy a "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirt for only $20, I couldn't resist. Today, when I went to my local outlet mall and then to Costco, I wore that shirt. I live in the Southeast, in an area with a sizeable Black population and a lot of Democrats. Still, there are conservatives here, so I expected some recognition for the shirt. What I didn't expect was the happiness with which my shirt would be greeted.
At the outlet mall, a young Black woman, maybe in her late 20s, came hurrying up to me. "I love your shirt," she said. "Where did you get it?" I explained that I'd bought it online. We agreed that its subtlety made it especially appealing. From there, the brief conversation drifted to Ben Shapiro (she's a big fan, while I'm more of a Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles person) and ended with fond farewells on both our parts.
My next stop was Costco, where the shirt again elicited happy praise, although this time from White people only. A young woman with a small child in her cart told me that she loved my shirt. Two grizzled older men liked it, too. When I checked out, the clerk said, "I love your shirt." She also told me that the gas station she passes on the way to work increased the price of gas by ten cents overnight.
The whole experience was so uplifting that I'm planning to make the shirt my standard garb for shopping. The great thing about it is that it's not "in your face." Despite the Washington Post trying to argue that the phrase, with its allusion to "Eff Joe Biden," is as offensive as the years of obscenities and death wishes that leftists hurled at Bush and Trump, the fact remains that, outside of political junky circles, most Democrats haven't yet grokked to the meaning behind "Let's Go Brandon." It's the conservative secret handshake. We bond over it, knowing that even if we're in a blue town, we're not alone.
The great thing is that I'm not the only one who's bringing "Let's Go Brandon" out of the stadiums and onto the streets. The Marine who wrestled a gun away from the would-be armed robber appeared at his award ceremony wearing his "Lets Go Brandon [sic]" shirt. When New York's police, firefighters, and teachers, representing all sorts of races, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest vaccine mandates, one of the things they chanted was "Let's Go Brandon":
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