I don’t really write about politics on here mostly because I feel like there are many people who do and most of them are better at it than I would be. When I do it, it’s either because I think I have a genuinely persuasive case or a call to action. This time, however, I don’t really have either. Sometimes I think that what’s important is not what you’re saying but standing and being counted.
There is a very predictable cycle of event, outrage, backlash. It goes like this:
something very bad happens (in this case, Charlie Kirk’s murder);
some people, privately and publicly, are ghoulish about it;
there is a rush to condemn this group of people on the part of writers whose brand involves reasonableness, responsibility, even-handedness;
but what will actually happen, and which any child could have seen coming, is a gigantic backlash from those with actual power in this scenario;
however, at this point, the even-handed people have already said what they have to say and everything else, no matte…