This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

Part of the issue is a bedrock refusal to accept the fact the people who wanted to defund the police were correct and political elites refused to address their claims. They want to make that a grassroots rather than elite failure which is why they point to Pelosi/Clinton/Biden as representative.

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."

I repeat, absolutely an amateur hour situation. Just wildly dumb stuff going on here.