Petty, pathetic psychology here: “any depravity by opponents of Trump is deserved by its targets, or else is Trump’s fault, somehow.”
The Luigi cult, the Kirk celebrants, the people who cheer crime and want to punish calling cops — all of these germinated organically on (yes) “the left,” and are fair game for criticism by anyone who hasn’t single-mindedly devoted himself to anti-rightoid spite.
You could say they germinated in a landscape changed by Trump, but this makes literally all political phenomena Trump’s “fault” (or accomplishment?), a thought-terminating monomania, which is certainly one variety of Content that sells.
Yes the “left” did this, not the people who built a cult of personality around Donald J Trump.
The thing about right wing moral critiques is that Trump just discredits all of it.
You can point to leftists on TikTok or streamers.
But Democrats didn’t make any of these people their party leaders.
Any argument about what’s gone wrong with the culture that doesn’t place Trump and those who support Trump as the main and most important cause is just missing the point.