American Scare Quotes

“Aren't any Floridians besides Bonnie Stark even curious why, once a decade, an anti-queer or anti-Black movement will sprout from their soil, flourish, and spread its seeds across America in a panic that inevitably claims that tough actions will save innocent whites from a moral hellscape? Why, to privilege a sunshine dream, are generation after generation of Florida strongmen allowed to escape culpability? How could one peninsula be such a pressure point for the American body politic, such a wavemaker for the nerves?”
― Robert W. Fieseler, American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives