to say that voters are not a meaningful locus of accountability doesn’t mean many of them aren’t in some personal, moral sense culpable or worthy of blame. 1/

nevertheless, it’s unhelpful to lift that personal judgment to the level of politics. you’ll blame the mistaken or persuadable with the genuinely vicious, negatively polarize those who might otherwise be reachable into rationalizations, or into supporting the vicious for fear of retribution. /fin

oh shoot! i misreplied, reading your reply as a response to a different post! sorry!