I do appreciate the framing as "baby's first" rather than "bad and wrong". When a person starts getting a real glimpse of how awful things can be, "all men suck" is not an unreasonable initial reaction! But as you say, ultimately a destructive and self-defeating mindset to stay stuck in.

/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.

This fluffy physics professor similarly assumes that gravity only applies to him for reasons that are somehow my fault, and punishes me accordingly.

"It took me, a very smart person, a decade to realize that Trump is bad while these people I think are stupid realized immediately" is such an incredible self own.