FBI Shooting of Robertson Reaffirmed What We Already Knew

 The Craig Robertson tragedy revealed a stark truth. Okay, it didn't reveal it, it reaffirmed it.

  Whole communities are caught up in Trumpism -- LDS communities included. No, it is more than that: LDS communities are especially prone to having a high percentage of extreme conservatives.

   Robertson, "was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and ongoing erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens wrought by what he, and many others in this nation, observed to be a corrupt and overreaching government," the family said in a statement it issued to the press. Reading the news articles, it became clear many of his church friends felt the same way as the family. 

   Aside from whether it is good or bad that so many LDS communities identify with the far right, it is a simple fact that they do. They are packed with gun activists. They are believers in "the Great Steal." They are apologists for Jan. 6. They are climate deniers.

  Just saying they are. 

  And though to many it isn't a negative, to me it is. Like many of you, I am LDS, and to me, it is to be lamented. I love the bunch of you. As it is said, we should be able to disagree without being disagreeable. I hope I haven't come across as disagreeable. Bless us both.