NOTE: This is an article on the father of the extreme, right-wing gun rights brothers behind the anti-social distancing rallies.
Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the Midwest — have also created lingering bitterness within communities.
Three years ago, on a day when the small, rural town of Worthington, Minnesota, came together, it also began tearing apart.
It was King Turkey Day, one of Worthington’s largest annual events. For 79 years, the Southwest Minnesota town has celebrated its bygone poultry industry and its agricultural community with a parade, a pancake breakfast and a turkey race through downtown.