A group of former Trump aides is releasing a new invite-only conservative dating app called “The Right Stuff,” backed by tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel. The app, launching this September, is pitching itself as being “all about getting into the right dating pool, with people who share the same values and beliefs as you.” The nation has long been subdividing into narrower and narrower bands, but a conservatives-only dating app seems like it is taking our divisions to a whole new level. This raises the question: Is such a service development necessary?
The truth is that it’s long been challenging for dating-age conservatives, especially in Washington, D.C. In 1977, the Washington Post’s Judy Bachrach asked: “Can a woman be seen socially with a Republican and still survive? And would you want your sister to marry one?” Her answers: “very, very occasionally” and it had to be the “right sort,” meaning “one who does not make it his business to suggest — at least not in public — that Eleanor Roosevelt was a pinko subversive.” As for sisters, it was OK, provided that “she wants to spend the rest of her life in A-line skirts, sling-back pumps and Cincinnati, Ohio.”
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