The Snowplow Test

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Authored by Rod Dreher via TheAmericanConservative.com,

Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan, who lives in Brooklyn Heights but who lives somewhere rurally to escape Covid, recently had a dilemma: her Trump-loving neighbors did something nice for her. 

She doesn’t know what the right thing to do about it is.

Now, stop right there.

Normal people don’t have this problem.

Normal people think, aww, how nice, and start thinking of ways to return the kindness.

But normal people are not Harvard-educated New York-based liberal journalists.

Hence Heffernan’s revealing column. Excerpts:

Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.

How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?

These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren’t a lot of anything other than white lives in neighborhood.

This is also kind of weird. Back in the city, people don’t sweep other people’s walkways for nothing.

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