curdled

But after a while, meaning after the advent of Trump, their humorless, groping sincerity, which I indulged because of course they “meant well,” curdled into flat-out fascist goose-stepping.

Because even as GameStop’s share price has steadily declined since the 2021 spike, its most fanatic subcultures curdled into piety, conspiracism, and irrationality.

That his tenure has curdled into absurdist tales of grubby graft and self-aggrandizing travel that a high-end credit-card rewards program could have furnished is a reflection of an incredible paradox—the great expositor of tough-on-crime politics allegedly did so much petty crime that he might not make it to the end of his first term of office.

My mood had been curdled by the transformation of such a friendly crowd, by Murillo’s raw anger, by the details from his diatribe: the way he said he was sick of Pride month, spitting out the word to hearty applause, or how he had the audience stand up and read the quote from American Revolutionary Thomas Paine: If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Folkenflik: You’re probably have a soul that has been curdled in time.