Last month, I had lunch with my cousin Wes for the first time since January 6, 2021. We got to talking about that day and he said something that stuck me hard: “I always knew they hated us, but I never knew they hated us that much.” His words crystallized what I’d been feeling but had never been able to put language to. Because he was exactly right. The hatred was no surprise, but the depth of it was. “They” hated us enough to trash America, democracy, truth, justice, the rule of law, and all those other noble, breakable ideals they claimed to love.

I disagree. I am very intentional in calling the extremists conservatives. Years ago, when establishment conservatives had the chance to stand against these people, to separate conservatism from them, they did not. Instead, they rationalized the excesses and pretended not

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to see the extremists’ ever more obvious derangement and estrangement from objective reality. At times, they even fed into the delusions (see: birtherism). This was the height of cynicism. Conservatives knew that folks like Limbaugh, the Tea Party Fox News and Sarah Palin

Yes, I know. But neither supports your “many cases” contention. This is one case, not many.
But even assuming for the sake of argument that you’re right, so what? Is it your contention that black and Hispanic folks are the main actors in these attacks on Asians?

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In the unlikely event that was so, what would point would it prove? No one I know - and certainly not me -has ever argued that black or Hispanic people are incapable of doing bigoted and stupid things. Half of the officers who killed Freddie Gray were black.