Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montanaās backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marionāa remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forestāruns a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing Americaās public lands. Contents
Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer baseāand his livelihoodāvanish before his eyes.
āYou wonāt meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didnāt vote for this,ā Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. āYou cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forestsā (1).
Their only connection to the outside world used to be newspapers, then radio and television, now itās the internet. This makes them extremely vulnerable to disinformation.
I canāt count the number of times Iāve been lectured by some yokel on how the city Iāve lived my entire life in is actually a warzone with shaira law.
We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now itās open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.
We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didnāt. Heil Trump.
We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now itās open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.
We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didnāt. Heil Trump.
Same! Theyāre absolutely terrified of my city and to me itās like, what the place where I walked to get my bagel this morning?