RealClearInvestigations picks as its “Investigation of the Week” Paul Sperry’s post on the killing of Ashli Babbitt on January 6 of this year. I don’t believe I have commented about the events of that day since they transpired. On the day of the breaching of the Capitol I condemned it in as unambiguous terms as I could muster. In doing so I attempted to use non-agonistic, not loaded diction.
Like so many other issues these days it’s what I think of as a “reverse Moynihan”: everybody has his or her own facts and they cannot be dissuaded of them. I have no idea of how to adjudicate these positions.
There is no common set of facts for anything anymore. I cant get conservatives in general and the ones here in particular to commit to any data sets that are useful that they find reliable.
As to Babbitt I dont know what really happened but her lawyer claiming she had no warning and was a saint is par for the course for a lawyer. His lawyer claims he is a saint and did warn her, the norm for a lawyer. The family is trying to get money out of this. Kind of the norm for America now.
Steve
Yeah, that’s what I’m complaining about here. That’s no way to run a railroad. Or a country.