Not long ago, the McCloskeys might have seemed a bizarre addition to a political convention. They feared death that day, they said, but they survived to join the culture wars. They were ridiculed on social media as bourgeois vigilantes; a 2018 St. Louis Magazine article on the painstaking restoration of their extravagant home was recirculated to fuel the mockery. Their long history of petty legal battles was aired by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The McCloskeys tried to villianize [sic] me @ the RNC tonight,” Bush tweeted 90 minutes after their appearance.

Source: Washington Post August 25, 2020 16:43 UTC