Treating a protest like a brunch with a seating time is very on brand for them

He was their next big thing. That's clear in this push to canonize and sanitize his image. The train is off the rails at this point because the very people he was meant to lead just murdered him. Black people, especially Black women, were screaming about this back in the early 00s.

I also think they dont want people to note that within their ranks that there is an unhinged smaller group they've empowered but cannot really control. The push to remove him from any affiliation with right-wing rhetoric despite evidence to the contrary

This! There's a sense of dread with all the other things these characters are getting into.

To me, the show never feels like it's meandering. We're steeped to the bad stuff, and the worse stuff is just waiting in the wings for its moment.

And it's not just that it's the overreaching dread of pretty much everything that they're doing. The synths, the biohacking, the attempts to cheat death.

Same. Im frightened of the prospect of all of this and what that looks like in the near future