Meant to add this screencap from Yglesias which is even more damning:

We’re not going to forget what you spent the last ten years doing

Even the one’s quietly backpedaling into the hedges were all in. All in.

Many “centrist” liberals are going through this process of re-narrativizing the last ten years to exculpate themselves for either abetting the breakdown of our civic architecture or being so in thrall to their moral vanity that they actively opposed anyone on the right who tried

At a Trump rally in San Jose in June of 2016, random supporters were beaten, harassed, bloodied, and violently intimidated. The San Jose mayor: "Trump needs to take responsibility..." Think Progress: "Trump-fueled" violence

The "mainly peaceful" protests that attracted "bi-partisan support" where neighborhood watches had to transform into armed militias to protect their homes from looters. Just a warm-hearted, unifying celebration of a life taken too soon.

"It is all a half-remembered dream. The violence. The rioting. The attempt to remove all dissent from public life. Who can say, really, what happened and who was responsible? Dim and distant. Obscured by the fog of time. Best to move on. Call it even. What do you say, friend?"

A lot of people who are just conformist weathervanes think they are the weather.