Texas Man Killed Prominent Lawyer Because She Voted for Joe Biden: Police

[byronius]

15. I agree.

I work in a state hospital system reviewing arrest reports and clinical evaluations all day, and this rhetoric is ultra-common in incoming referrals.

There are people who spin it, people who believe it, and psychotic people who just wash around in whatever cultural rivers they swim in, no order or coherency required — weaving together phrases attached to the racing images they can’t control.

This guy sounds more like that, but it truly is a spectrum. It is axiomatic that if Donald Trump and Texas lawmakers do not horrify you there is something wrong with you. Conservatism is primitivist and rooted in all the worst impulses, always has been, always will be. It is a pirate’s ideology, a sociopath’s creed, a criminal’s code, a sexual predator’s cloak. This is the factual history of that movement.

I suspect I’ll read this same litany for some time to come in the cases I process. And I wish there were more penalties for the profiteers pushing this swill out for the sake of hoarding and power, Vladimir Putin included. The mentally ill and the fuzzy-minded fall down the rabbit holes these men make.

It’s bad for everyone to let it continue. Them included. For this guy, it provided a logical path to murder decent human beings and end his life in prison.