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Perales has got his uniform and boots at hand, ready to defend his "bastion" – the Caracas neighbourhood where he lives.

Conservatives hated the video so much that X users recirculated it in March with language about the “ruins of bastions of masculinity” and cast blame on the women for everything bad that men have experienced.

I bring this up to reiterate the central point that these protests are happening clear across “middle America,” not just in bastions of liberal preciousness and “political correctness.”

And to build up new trees next to older ones, so that wildlife can flow "from these ancient bastions into the new woods and hedges and individual trees that we're planting".

Communing with audiences in the presence of gifted stage performers is one of the last bastions of community in our screen-ridden society.