They could have just called for better enforcement of laws. Instead they want a public spectacle with a process that is intentionally cruel.

What's funny is that they're so sure of their toxic "masculinity" position they stay silent on it until there's an administration they think is amenable to it.

They feel empowered in their position because someone else provided the umbrella.

It's classically weak, and it's funny they can't see it - that's how far out of tune with reality they are.

Nah see he only calls for it for "violent crime." Crime by the wealthy, even if it steals more money from people and even kills more people, is a super special kind of crime that doesn't count in the same way.

He is so generous towards the poor, advocating for faster trials and extreme punishment. We've definitely never seen overpolicing lead to any problems there. Nobody has ever got life in prison on a three-strikes law for stealing golf clubs. What the poor definitely do not need is for their bosses to stop engaging in wage theft and for their landlords to stop violating the law. That's not a problem at all.

Why would they? They elected this administration by a fairly wide margin, and everything it has done is in keeping with its campaign promises. It's been more effective at that than any administration I can think of.

Sure, it's horrifying to the people who voted against it. But I see nothing here to change the minds of people who voted for it.

There will probably be some midterm losses, because the same persistent economic problems are still troubling us, but I don't expect to hear much of "I didn't realize that they were bloodthirsty monsters". I expect more of "Yeah, they're bloodthirsty monsters, which I like, but I won't vote for them anyway because the economy is bad."

Sadly, this is the inevitable result of so-called "right Libertarianism" at the large scale. With its axiomatic framing, emphasis on individual freedom for yourself, and ignorant rejection of sticky market effects (ie computational complexity), its basically a recipe for power-hungry individuals to justify creating new authoritarian power structures with de facto governmental effects.