Barone is a fervent supporter of gay marriage. He fits right into today’s GOP.
He’s a socialist. Cave on one issue, you will cave on all of them.
I have sometimes wondered whether it's urban, East Coast anomie or something else.
It could be that the elite colleges have produced so many closet cases over the years that "society" is now stiff with them, which is to say that "society" is now degenerate as well as corrupt and cynical.
Another possibility is that gays have formed rings in the critical professions and occupations and have, as they did at the Disney animation shops 70 years ago, systematically purged heteronormal people from said occupations to the extent possible, creating false "consensus" here and there.