Motor City Madman no fascist

But you could fairly accuse him of being a domestic terrorist since he first picked up a guitar. That hopelessly confused “diversity tent” metaphor made me a little dizzy. So, although we can disagree with his politics, Ted’s no fascist.

Ted is in fact a pretty interesting cat. He is an authentic outdoorsman who will sit in a tree for hours in the dead of winter, bow in hand, waiting for the deer that’s gonna be dinner. That says a lot about a person.

Back when Ted first became a really big deal he was very popular in my circle, which consisted of young blue-collar types mostly. He had an edge about him. He was supposedly against drugs and booze, but that didn’t seem to hurt his popularity. He was seen as something of an anti-authoritarian.

It is therefore somewhat discomforting to see him slinging those old familiar riffs at GOP fundraisers. He’s certainly not the first schmuck who made good and forgot where he came from. 

Anyway, he’s a musician, not a public intellectual, and certainly not a fascist.