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John Nolte has a pont... that the Trumper-Snowflakes just need ther hand held
I'll go with the short form, today; there's history to this one:
We must prepare ourselves for the prospect of societal reconciliation demanding that (A) Trump followers and other conservatives are not culpable according to liberal belief in insanity defenses; (B) this requires liberals to simply let it all pass according to an old conservative myth about liberal theses on crime and punishment.
If that seems a bit abstract, it's kind of like the old hyperbole about how liberals hate crime victims and don't want to punish criminals; the way that works is that since liberals refuse to execute the noncompetent, they must not want to punish any criminals at all.
It's that last part conservatives have really screwed up. But it comes around, in its way, because noncompetency might well be the only
excuse, as such, they leave themselves.
It's something I hear woven into masculinist and antisocial narratives. We all have some sort of "if only", a recognition of our frailty somehow distinctly instilled by society (
i.e., externally) but avoidable "if only", and the construction usually observes an
external failure that would significantly affect an
internal result. Sometimes it's as simple as,
if only someone had said it that way twenty years ago.
Actually, it's a long post that can wait, but we ought not be surprised to encounter this variation on the Covidist Right; its emergence is nearly inevitable. The short form, there, is that it will always be somebody else's fault for failing to find a way to stop them.
I think of an anime version of the lamentation, except the scene doesn't actually make sense that way. Never mind, it has to do with how the story went. Still, with this rightist crowd, when we are called upon to answer for this part, the answer will be that
if nobody came to save them, it is because nobody could figure out how to save them from themselves.
And, because I am of that generation, it must be stated explicitly:
No, curbstomping would not be considered saving or helping them, even if they will eventually blame us for not literally kicking some sense into them. When they want to know why we didn't stop them, we can reasonably respond by calmly asking just how they think we should have done that.
