The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse may focus on the specific acts committed in the environment of the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that drew him there. The law will justly have it so. However, regarding what compelled him to go to Kenosha in the first place, he is entitled to no sympathy for having indulged himself in the ego-flattering notion promoted by specific media outlets of supposed injury from disdained or denigrated identity. His journey follows the same psychological path as that of a radicalized Islamist foreign fighter. The will to do violence against fellow citizens of a different identity (a "them") has been nurtured by such media outlets, for it finds a revenue-bearing audience and thus a political constituency. —Stephen J., Pennsylvania
I agree with Donna C. from California. People are criticizing Biden unfairly. Consider where the country would be if he had not won the election, or if the Jan. 6 coup had succeeded. We'd be on a fast track to totalitarianism. Consider all that has been revealed recently: extensive planning at the Willard Hotel to overturn the election, blanket pardons offered to insurrectionists, John Eastman's plan to destroy the succession process, etc. If Trump were still president, we would likely know none of that; the evidence would have been destroyed. At least with Biden in office we have an opportunity to save the republic. We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from that effort. —Tim P., New Mexico
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