To add to this, a lot of the jokes about it not being able to be called “cheese” also just come down to a misunderstanding of how the US Code of Federal Regulations works. There are American-style cheeses that have a milkfat percentage high enough to be labeled a cheese, but also ones that have to be labeled pasteurized prepared cheese product. This is pretty much the equivalent of saying that American ice cream can’t be called ice cream because some of what’s available in grocery stores is actually frozen dairy dessert. I’m personally grateful for our slightly burdensome regulatory scheme that allows me to identify certain qualitative differences between similar looking products with similar ingredient lists.

I can only hope that this backfires spectacularly for the establishment. Going first could mean that the shitlib vote is split amongst 4 or 5 candidates while the progressives pick a lane. Deeper into the primary cycle fuckass Jim Clyburn could probably meddle more.

Massie isn’t a Never Trump Republican. In his own primary campaign, he was proudly saying that he voted with Trump the vast majority of the time. He’s a guy with one good position and endless bad ones, so I’m not sure why he ever got as much goodwill as he has.