Though it’s doable the jury made a mistake when it handed down a responsible verdict, neither Carlson nor Rittenhouse nor Abbott tried to argue the case on the deserves. As an alternative, they made a easy assumption: that any violence in opposition to a left-wing protester is justified on its face. Perry had lived out the right-wing fantasy of deadly violence in protection of “order.” By their lights, he had achieved nothing improper.
Outstanding conservatives have taken the identical view of Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old…
