The most striking thing about Cole Allen’s manifesto is how normal it is. Not in the sense that the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association dinner gunman has written some sober-minded polemic or that it is the product of rational discourse — the missive is practically dripping with raw hatred and anger.
But it doesn’t contain many sentiments you cannot readily encounter in the real world, especially if you peruse social media or hang around certain political circles. Such manifestos are often crazed, radical, or have sprung from the mind of someone whose ideology cannot be so easily described, the diary of a madman. This document was filled with talking points you could reliably hear on The View.
“I am a citizen of the United States of America,” Allen wrote. “What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands
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