Of course they don’t. Trump humpers are all worthless people who abandoned decency a long time ago.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”Jean-Paul Sartre, “Anti-Semite and Jew”
The murder of Renee Good was an intentional act in several senses.
First, it was a murder in the classic legal sense, in that the ICE agent who shot and killed her was in no danger — the video clearly shows Good trying to drive away as masked armed men shout contradictory orders at her — so the use of deadly force had no justification. Of course, the entire right wing is lying about this, recalling a famous quote from 1984:
The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Closely related to this is the fascist fellow traveler move of invoking some utterly phony Rashomon metaphor about “multiple perspectives” or some such dime store postmodernist bullshit. There are multiple perspectives here, but only because half the country is fascist or enablers and tolerators of the fascist movement that is Trumpism. The perspectives are the truth — Renee Good was murdered by ICE — and a lie: The fascist scum who murdered her was acting in self-defense.
But this was an intentional act in a more abstract and attenuated sense, in that Stephen Miller has created a set of circumstances in which it was inevitable that this sort of murder would happen in this way, so he could pursue his sadistic fantasies of a violent crackdown on protest against the regime (note here that Good wasn’t even protesting; she may have been observing ICE’s activities for evidentiary purposes, but even that is unclear). The local Democratic authorities are asking for calm, so that a proper investigation of the murder can take place. Still, of course, there can be no adequate investigation when any such investigation needs to take place in the shadow of a fascist federal government that quite consciously put into place the policies and practices that would make such a murder, as well as future such murders, inevitable.
If you support the orange monster in the White House, you are a worthless human being equally as deserving of destruction as all of these fat fascists with ICE on their chests. You have to make amends for what you have done.
This murder was not surprising, but I think it finally laid bare exactly where things stand. In many ways, it was a “perfect” example because it’s so evident that the agent was in no danger, and she’s such a non-threatening figure. The fact that the right has reacted as strongly as it has, not only blaming her for her own murder but also showing absolutely no sympathy or empathy in doing so, crystallizes where they stand and who they are.
We’re hurtling over the abyss in so many ways, and I will never forgive any of these people. The stupid Trump voters who say, “I got fooled, I didn’t want this,” need to be accepted back into society out of exigency if nothing else, but those who stand by him now are moral monsters who would have to do a lot of rehabilitation work to be considered anything resembling decent. None of them should ever have any power again when this is all over, as one way or another, it will be someday.