Pasta is as follows:

Regarding the Politico "leaked Republican messages" story - wow, yeah, the generation you STOLE everything from and told was EXISTENTIALLY EVIL from the time it was in shortpants gets a bit wild and rowdy in the groupchats - especially following the weeks after they all saw the token guy who only ever wanted to have open dialog and who believed thoughtful debate could help the country and who was, by all reasonable accounts - a civil moderate to a fault - get ventilated in front of his own children.

WOW SUCH A REVELATION THAT THE GENERATION THAT FEELS LIKE IT HAS NOTHING TO LOSE AND NO VIABLE FUTURE SPEAKS IN SUCH "ABHORRENT" SHORTHAND AMONGST THEMSELVES.

No one suggests they ever look at why the young are so mad and to see if any of it is actually logical or if anything can actually be done to alleviate that (spoiler alert: MUCH can be done, but no one is willing to do it).

No, the only "solution" they have is shame and blacklisting, which... LOL, if you thought the group chat was bad, wait until the first Right Wing Death Squads emerge and start marching down the streets, summarily executing everyone they see as the root problem.

You literally don't realize how close you are to cultivating that, Lefties. I'm talking door-kickers with shotguns collecting tags of anyone deemed "degenerate" or "subversive."

It will percolate up from seemingly nowhere, and while I've meme'd about that subject in the past (when it was much more unlikely and distant), I'm not here to endorse it. Rather, what I'm writing is a plea - take a note from history and psychology - and realize where you are now at in time. You idiots at Politico just made the problem 10x worse (though you're hardly the first or atypical).

This isn't 2012. Obamacore is dead and Kamalacore is still staggering around like a chicken with its head cut off, wondering why everything's gone so suddenly cold.

What, you think Antifa gives Lefties a monopoly over violence?

When you destroy civil society (and these kinds of struggle sessions absolutely do just that), you create an entire clan of people with no other recourse.

Suddenly, people like editors and journos start having names and addresses...

The Left has largely enjoyed the wrath of the Right being relatively restrained by a generalized Christian virtue, while they themselves never have to swear off or exile their more extreme fellow travelers.

That's changing. No, that has changed. Kirk's assassination is what changed it. Many do not realize this, yet, and will be blindsided when they realize "the old rules" are no longer in play.

And make no mistake, the old rules no longer matter to anyone under 45. What you're seeing happen with this is the last, shuddering death rattle of the GOPe embracing Leftist shame and framing. Because of course they do. That's the only reason why any of this was published in the first place - because the olds could be relied upon to exile the young and futureless.

But that clock is running out, too.

Again, this is a warning and a plea, not an endorsement.