The Fellowship of the Frightened Steak

Language Matters by Elias Winter · May 27, 2026 · 36m

There are empires that collapse under debt, corruption, war, loneliness, broken hospitals, bad schools, spiritual exhaustion, and the slow conversion of public life into private extraction.

Texas, we are told, faces something worse.

Tofu.

This was the great revelation offered from the stage: that somewhere in the political wilderness, beyond the cattle, beyond the megachurches, beyond the oil wells and the real estate scams and the private-equity clinics and the men who confuse sunglasses indoors with leadership, there lurks a young Christian Democrat whose campaign once expressed kindness…