P.S. Bloom was gay but gutlessly never once commented on the gay rights movement. Instead he chose to try and legitimize the same point of view that would have kept him a second class citizen at best and a criminal at worst.

Webb’s book is, in a pigeonhole, primarily genealogical masturbation, which is fine but it’s not clear to me where people are getting social conservatism from that. Lots of people are capable of talking up their people’s contributions to the country without stating or even implying cultural superiority.