What if someone had actually done the deed and then told the assembled press at the jailhouse door that “Ross Douthat told me to do it”?
Gonna happen one of these days.
In effect it already has. Remember the shooter at the Family Research Council who was “inspired” by the Southern Poverty Law Center?
It doesn’t surprise me the least. I had lived in Minnesota for ten years amongst lefties who thought destruction of property and other violence were legitimate forms of political expression. This is why I believe that the current polarization (done by the Left by Alinsky methods) will lead to a bloody civil war. Not if. When.