People so caught up in the hysterics, if you so much as hint, that you don't want Josh Duggar executed, you get accused of condoning what Josh did and being against the victims.
Alinsky RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
“People so caught up in the hysterics, if you so much as hint, that you don’t want Josh Duggar executed, you get accused of condoning what Josh did and being against the victims.”
Not so much condoning as minimizing it and saying it doesn’t matter now. Plus the accusations by the defenders are also over the top.