Portland is a secular city with a left-leaning monoculture that has a void instead of religion or purpose. He says people want to be heroes and actually believe they are in a fight with fascists and they are willing to use violence.
The teacher said that the threat against his job was coercive instead of tolerant. Vlaming has the Constitutional right to not be compelled to speak something that violates his conscience as a Christian.
‘Ballot harvesting’ is when organized workers collect ballots from absentee voters and drop them off at a polling place or election office, violating the chain of custody.