Are you talking about the subject of the article, or the godawful writing? EDIT: okay, it gets steadier after the beginning. But that first section reads like a train wreck.
It did. I struggled through the beginning and ended up getting hooked, even though it sounded like fiction to me. I guess I struggled with the idea that some conservative men could be pushed sooo close to introspection by a woman that used "republican-curious" in her dating app. I guess they are NYC conservatives, they have to be different than the Southern Virginia conservatives.
I listened to an interview with the journalist a couple months ago. It helps that she is very attractive.
Ironically that's part of the reason we're in this mess. There's a former Republican/anti-Trump Republican who regularly does focus groups, and during the election she said her biggest problem was that she couldn't get meaningful feedback on Republican policies or priorities, because focus group participants didn't believe it was real. Stuff straight out of Project 2025, or a Republican Party platform, or statements by elected Republicans. They just didn't think it was reasonable for Republicans to do what they were planning to do, so they assumed they wouldn't. And now here we are, with it all happening.