>speak for themselves.

You sure about that? It's not hard to find people using the same video to come to different conclusions.

https://xcancel.com/doranmaul/status/2009308798159097922

https://xcancel.com/NewDayForNJ/status/2009395703634698358

I don't think so, given the drastically different takes on something that seemed quite obvious to me after rewatching the video many times.

It was quite clear that many takes, on both sides, seemed to bypass the events in the video and jump straight to whatever ideologically-driven interpretation they needed to be true.

On the contrary, if I learned something from the Rittenhouse case is that there's a type of person who, when stuff like this happens, doesn't care about video at all, they just grab the narrative and go with it.

Except that if you poll any MAGA person, including basically anyone running the federal government right now, it seems that they see a video of a protester trying to run down an officer.

When you attempt vehicular manslaughter of an armed federal agent lawfully performing their duties, you find out.