It’s actually more narcissistic.
As I wrote elsewhere, there is a popular theoretical question - "would you have killed Hitler in the 1930s if you knew what was to come?" Many people answer "yes."
True, we haven't perfected time travel. But then 2020 came along.
I believe many on the left feel the same way about Trump - AND have a hyper (and delusional) elevated sense of their self. Lacking a time machine, the 2020-equivalent question was "would you steal the election by whatever means, to remove Trump from office? Because, ya know, he's Hitler."
We have seen their "yes" for 8 years, culminating in many ways with the assassination attempt.
2020 was a de facto going back in time to kill Hitler. They high-fived each other and BELIEVED they were The Resistance incarnate.
This new dogma - "anything goes if we are morally justified" is an extension of this article:
.... What (liberals) really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. Feminism, deconstruction, and gender theory are not just academic abstractions up for discussion among liberal academics: They are articles of their religious creed. Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
...for them, politics is the means to secular salvation...political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.
Yes, they are barking mad, but functionally so. They have jobs, live in cities, and associate with like-minded Lost Souls. There is power in numbers. For the most part, since they’re not committing a crime they’re free to wander around.
If Trump retired after 2020 it’d sort of end there. Exceeeeeeept, Trump didn’t slink away. He’s as alive as ever.
The Lost Souls are gonna kick The Crazy up a few notches. These cancellations are them going back into their Time Machine and ignore, cancel, lie, etc and have a 2-Minute Virtue-signaling Hate on Social Media about Trump and his supporters and “kill Hitler 2.p”…so they can feel self-important in between lines of coke.
Clarence Thomas got it right, when he wrote about the protests (threats?) from the Roe leak: "We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like."
“ the 2020-equivalent question was “would you steal the election by whatever means, to remove Trump from office? Because, ya know, he’s Hitler.””
Stochastic terrorists in the Democrat party and the media have promoted this idea hoping that some weak minded person incited by their rhetoric will take violent action. A few have already.