Capitol Police Hero, Lt Michael Byrd request for help.

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13. The distinction is simple, from their point of view.

I still don’t understand how the Right sees Rittenhouse with no training, just gets to shoot someone and Lt Byrd, with his training and justification is bad....

They know that there are what they consider "good cops" - those would be the ones that helped the 1/6 Insurrection, the ones that let Kyle Rittenhouse know they were on his side, the ones that shoot Black men, and the ones that are Constitutional Sheriffs.

And they know that there are what they consider "bad cops" - the ones who aren't part of that effort, the ones that don't share the same views. The ones they don't consider true Americans, but are still cops nonetheless. But if those cops get in the way, suddenly they aren't even really cops anymore.

My point is, this sort of thing has happened before. One of the signs of a certain flavor of authoritarian movements - much as with in a cult - is an abandonment of objective reality. Values become completely subjective, and variable. Willingness to submit to that lack of a firm baseline is a sign of loyalty. And the more irrational or inconsistent a thing a member can make themselves believe, the more loyal they see themselves and the more dedicated others within see them. It emboldens all of them, together.