Here’s the thing. Of course we, the sane and the moderate, wish we all lived in a lawful decent kind world. A world where the malicious were dealt with justly through legal due process. Of course decent people would like saboteurs and misinformation peddlers and frauds and deceitful enemy propagandists to not get shot to death. Just like we would prefer that tens of thousands of ’mercuns, many children, were not gunned down every year.
But that is certainly not the United States under these Fox Republicans. These MAGA deplorables. These violent anti-social deviant ignoramuses and their howling followers. And if you are at all surprised that a disgusting loud-mouthed shameless far-Reich propagandist was gunned down by far-Reich gun nut, then more fool you. That was inevitable in the climate the kakistocracy has fostered. It happened, and it will happen again. And again with increasing frequency as the chaos unleashed by these “Conservatives” progressively erodes what is left of the American dream.
And if you think, as a moderate, that declaring that the shooting was wrong, which we all know, that you will be protected in any way from the political violence that fElontRump and the GQP have unleashed with their fascism, then you are deluded. This was literally far-Right on far-Right violence, infighting among the nut-cases, and THEY don’t care. They never care one bit about the facts or the truth. And they will continue to weaponize the killing to justify deliberately doing violence to you, if you will oppose them in any way.
Yes, we agree that political killings are bad. Except that the assholes with there teeth in the throat of the nation are actively, performatively, reveling in it. And calling for retribution, which is just more violence.
