All has been revealed. Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) writes on his Substack,
When the Preference Cascade Becomes a Flood: Everything is becoming clear.
Read the whole thing. Reynolds touches on the themes that I’ve described as “unknown knowns.” He writes that two truths have now been revealed for everyone to see. First,
The murder of Charlie Kirk at the hands of a leftist gunman has revealed that many, many more Americans — and even people elsewhere around the world — supported Charlie and his views than was commonly appreciated.
How many support these views?
Charlie’s views — uniformly disparaged by the press as “far right” — are in fact mainstream, generally held by the majority of people. His assassination has caused people to step forward, and realize that the normal-American community is a huge majority.
On the other hand,
But something else is being revealed, which is just how awful the views of the other 20% are. The approving response to the assassination from so many otherwise apparently respectable people has demonstrated just how many people there are who adhere to a leftist ideology of hate.
That 20 percent figure is continually supported by polling coducted for John’s American Experiment organization. The most common-sense, middle-of-the-road position will be put forward, and the result is 75-25 or 80-20 favorability, never 90-10.
So to me the real shock this week was in who these people are:
These are large numbers of people in professional and managerial jobs — mostly government employees of some sort, it seems — who genuinely believe that holding ideas they don’t like should carry the death penalty.
So much has been revealed this week. All of it we already knew, but now everyone knows it, and there is no going back.
The only way out it through. Glenn closes his piece with the following,
Trump is the Great Clarifier, and here’s another thing that’s become clear in his second term.
They’re there, they hate you, and they’re not going anywhere. So what to do about it?
