…I can’t wrap my head around the concept that openly supporting a former President, who got 75 million votes last time, who is still hugely popular among Republicans, is not only completely acceptable in my social circle or yours, but is completely unacceptable in a way that the law should enforce. It’s just not in the realm of reason. It’s one of the more striking examples I’ve encountered recently of in-a-bubble thinking.

….. It’s actually scary to me that some people think that tens of millions of people should be treated as as-a-matter-of-law outsiders. It’s a terrible, terrible way to run a society.

@Popehat Except MAGA isn't a person, it's a political philosophy. And the hat's being worn by a teacher, whose students presumably include people attacked by the MAGA philosophy.

@msbellows It’s the recognized slogan of a candidate. And note that here the hat wasn’t worn in front of students. It was worn to and from a teacher event and taken off at the event.

@msbellows @Popehat it’s also the recognized slogan of an attempted insurrection led by said candidate. I’m not at all saying it definitely should be illegal but I think your surprise at the pushback that it’s matter of fact not is curious.

@no1lion99 @msbellows The insurrection subset of the people who wear MAGA garb is very small, much like the subset of people who wear BLM garb who engage in violence or property destruction is quite small.