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Friendly reminder that in real life, Jon Townsend is a far-right conservative gay hating bigot.
That's why the orange fool thing was confusing. It was the woman's idea (he co-hosted that episode with a woman who works on a living history place), not his. He is deeply homophobic (hence his appeals to tradition and a prior time when gay people were coincidentally all pressured even more so than now to be closeted), and knows if his personal political beliefs got out, he would be cancelled, so he couldn't come out and say "yeah orange fool was her idea I love Trump", and that's why it got messy.
He's obsessed with tradition because white straight men feel threatened that now they aren't the only ones allowed to have power.
