@dpp i agree there’s a kind of stupidity, in that they believe that following their ideological priors will lead to a good and virtuous rather than a broken, poor, and violent society. but they mean for what’s happening to happen. they mean to enable it. in that sense, i think it’s only malice, not stupidity.

they are not in fact shocked, shocked by what the rest of us call abuses. they are constructing the loopholes, the protections against judicial protection of the public, with care.