What’s Up With the Right Wing’s Vikings Cheerleader Meltdown?

Cain can joke about calling in airstrikes on cheerleaders. Sorbo can search for a new team to disappoint him. Brown can tweet slurs into the void. None of it changes the fact that Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn are going to show up this season, do their jobs, and dance really, really well while doing it.

The right keeps demanding spaces free from visible queerness. They’re not going to get them. Not in their beer aisles, not at their football games, not anywhere in public life. And the sooner they figure that out, the sooner they can stop pretending that two dancers in Minneapolis constitute some kind of national emergency.

Though, honestly? Watching them melt down over pom-poms is pretty entertaining. Maybe they should keep going. At this rate, by next season they’ll be demanding congressional hearings every time a quarterback has good hair.