Its sad to read this left-wing trashing but I am even more saddened by those who call themselves ‘conservative’ who want to express sympathy for the beleaguered land owners of the West, but take no real or meaningful action.
They then move on to condemn this protest people because it doesn’t serve their interests of sucking people in to believe the Republicans will do something when the GOP track record is doing nothing but talk and propose legislation that’s symbolic and or going nowhere near being law.
On one hand, the protest is entirely sensible: a long train of abuses which have not been addressed, culminating in crossing a final line (”oh, you served your sentence, but we think the sentence was illegally lenient so we’re going to incarcerate you again for even longer”), facing the admittedly-imperfect victims with a choice where revolt is preferable to compliance.
On the other hand, the revolt is attracting all kinds of nuts & weirdos holding various combinations of crazy alleged grievances alongside martyrdom complexes - not a good combination for solving sociopolitical ills.
Living 2300 miles away also puts a crimp in one’s interest in getting involved.
Yes, the GOP sucks in light of the issues involved. That’s part of why Trump is doing so well.