Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“It is an exceedingly popular but absurd game to try to count coup on one’s political opponents based on the actions of a single fringe participant in some of their beliefs. In my lifetime pretty much every major public assassination of this type has been by someone who turned out to be mentally unbalanced or a total loony. … There is a funny dynamic in which both team Red and team Blue believe their side to be well-behaved while the other side is steeped in violent rhetoric. There is a reason for this, as alluded to earlier: Opinion-makers from both teams love to explore the other team’s fringe supporters to look for craziness, and inevitably find it.” (09/15/25)