straitlaced

Why did DeSantis’s attempt to appeal to Republican voters as a straitlaced version of Trump fall so flat?

At first Gourley’s fans were confused — maybe even disappointed — that he’d taken such a comparatively straitlaced “corporate” job, and in the first year or so his voice was seldom heard on the blockbuster podcast.

More serious, and also worthy, are Jamie Bell as a straitlaced father from the ‘80s in ‘All of Us Strangers’ and Robert Downey Jr. for his nearly unrecognizable turn in ‘Oppenheimer.’

“There were all these people going wild around me and I felt really straitlaced.”

Yet the media, then and now and for all the years in between, has continued to let Republicans brand themselves as a straitlaced anti-crime party.