What we need to understand is that fascism is intersectional and erotic — ’thy rod is thy gun,’ with a hip-thrust

In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about his experience of going undercover as a young man in a secret, elitist organization of the American Christian Right. It was, in many ways, the opposite of his latest book, The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War.