Murc's Law: Only Democrats have agency. Everything Republicans do, they were made to do by Democrats. Democrats made them vote for Trump, made them be racist, made them elect Qanon lunatics, made them assault the capitol.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1356305017175728129
Ask a Republican a moral question & you will never, ever get a first-order answer, about the actual morality of the acts in question. It's "Dems did something worse." It's "Dems made us do it." It's endless variants of, "It's not our fault!" The moral worldview of an adolescent.
An adolescent doesn't care whether or not what he did was wrong, he just doesn't want it pinned on him. He doesn't want the blame, or any responsibility. If he can escape accountability by pointing to someone else who allegedly did something worse, that's enough.
This moral outlook stems in part from the deep belief (or *feeling*, really) that life is a series of zero-sum conflicts. It's tribe v. tribe, an endless struggle for dominance, w/ no rules or principles transcending the struggle. All that matters in that kind of context ...
... is avoiding blame, because blame costs you points in the contest, and the contest is all that matters.
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