It’s tactical. The idea is that if you convince your supporters that your enemies are breaking the rules and getting away with it that your supporters will cheer you punishing those enemies by breaking those same rules.

It’s just like in sports. People get upset when the refs punish their team for what they perceive the other team getting away with.

This doesn’t read as just California. It’s the whole country.

I love seeing comments like yours where people change some of their thinking as a result of online discussion.

I was starting to feel like no one listens to understand and only listen to respond, and comments like this help lift me out of that perspective.