>Ellison may have just Peter Principled himself out of this prosecution.
Normal people so desperately want all this rioting mismanagement to be mere incompetence.
They can recognize subconsciously that it all fits together somehow, but they've been trained since birth to associate that kind of thinking with "conspiracy theories."
They want to believe these people are just dumb with good intentions.
Because the idea that the people they elected to govern and protect them want them dead is too terrifying.
Sometimes people can't be told, they have to shown.