The Dale Earnhardt communist memes I keep seeing confused me. I figured there was some sort of hyperbole behind them, because there's no way a NASCAR driver could ever express such sentiments and build up a large fan base of traditionally-minded folks. I still don't completely understand it, but this clarifes that he never really had any association with left-wing ideologies, as I suspected. Too bad, really. It would be awesome to think that he was a closet socialist.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/04/dale-earnhardt-memes-intimidator-nascar-rabbit-holes.html