the conservative movement is defined by hierarchy, and the ability to enforce that hierarchy (through authority both legal and extralegal) is paramount
suddenly losing one of their primary tools for reminding the lesser people that they are, in fact, lesser was unacceptable
@mtsw.bsky.socialMade this point before but I think millennials and older really underrate the extent to which younger conservatives experienced the (quite successful!) 2010s school anti-bullying campaigns as a radicalizing and defining event for their politics.
