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Beware, Straussian reading largely means reading a text and making it mean anything you want it to. Your evidence is the “esoteric meaning” you uncovered. The magic of this is when someone tries to debate you using the same source you can retort that your critics just haven’t read close enough or have not grappled with the material the same way you have. Despite being advertised as otherwise it is a rather unscientific method of reading a text and perhaps for this reason it is so prolific among the American right.