Everything is part of the culture wars, even milk cultures. But identifying your political milk ilk is a little more complicated than choosing sides in other partisan battles. A couple decades ago, raw, unpasteurized milk was mostly popular among Whole Foods shopping, boxy Volvo-driving, hippy-clinging lefties who liked to use it wash down the personal blend of GORP they custom mixed by scooping just the right ratio of organic, artisanal, raw pumpkin seeds, sun-dried chia-powdered chard, carob-covered banana chips, and all-natural sugarless, tasteless granola from fairtrade plastic grocery bins into their hemp-based reusable shopping bag. At the time, reversing this trend would have seemed like milking a duck, but in a condensed period of time, this group’s love for raw milk evaporated and an entirely different group of voters, let’s call them the Milk Men—intolerant of everything but lactose—were chugging the raw stuff double-fisted on the hood of a gun-racked, gas-converted Tesla cybertruck—partly to quench thirst, partly to own the libs, and partly because the milk mustache hid the fact they couldn’t grow a natural one—and were milking legislatures to allow unpasteurized goods to bypass science and adopt a new American socio-dietary movement: Teat to Table. Was there a moment when these two groups briefly met and found common ground. Alas, udder disregard persevered. Think, I’m milking it? Trust me, you’ll be hitting the tiger’s milk by the time you get done reading Marc Novicoff’s piece in Politico Magazine: How Raw Milk Went from a Whole Foods Staple to a Conservative Signal. “So how did raw milk go from the darling of the organic liberals, deserving of sympathetic coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Yorker, to the conservative culture war signal that is a sweetheart of deep-red state legislatures? First, liberal elites gave up on it … At the same time, conservatives discovered that raw milk fit neatly inside a worldview that was increasingly skeptical of credentialed expertise.” American politics, where the cream never rises to the top.