I'm not personally scared of Aaron Coleman, who is a random living in Kansas and, as he himself complains, too much of an ignorant dumbass to survive this scandal or any future ones that might arise

I'm really fucking scared of the "JUSTICE FOR AARON" brigade though

It says a lot of really bad things about where our society is that as many people flocked to taking the asshole's side in this tiny KS state legislature race that they did

This wasn't about power or policy, this was identity politics - they identify with this kid

They are EAGER to pull the lever on this imaginary trolley problem they just invented

There was no way getting Frownfelter out of seat #37 in the KS state house would affect KS abortion rights or Medicaid or whatever

BUT WHAT IF IT DID

It's like those wackjobs who want you to imagine a bomb about to go off and the only password to defuse it is saying a racial slur

"What if the only way to achieve Medicare for All was to forgive a revenge porn creep

What if that was our ONLY HOPE"

@gwensnyderPHL talks a lot about this

There's a small but committed group of influencers whose whole job is to pipeline angry young white men on the Left to the Right via this resentment of "woke idpol"

"They're gonna MeToo EVERY socialist candidate, just you wait"

It's fucking terrifying

Ask yourself what kind of community you're building for yourself by enshrining the principle that interpersonal cruelty and violence isn't IMPORTANT compared to REAL POLITICS