@Maenad RIGHT. I mean, there is the thing that it does make them susceptible and that this is also the route to winning them back from the hands of these vile people, but it's no excuse. They can and should be reached.

But it also belies what we're seeing in the protests: a lot of these people showing up to the protests have money. They have *very* expensive guns. They're flying all over the country. They're from the suburbs, not Appalachia.