Let’s be conservatively optimistic. That is, be optimistic conservatives. Look, not to be presumptuous, but I bet if you were to question this urban hipster minutes before this attack about what bothered him most, he’d probably regurgitate how Trump is a fascist inciting violence against innocent Muslims, etc. Maybe the beating sets some brain wiring right or his new chronic cranial-neurological issue that’ll keep him home from the next immigrant rights protest.
I see at least a couple of aspiring rappers working on their first album whose grandmothers will attest they are good boys who have never done anything like this before ....