It is not my problem that you would rather stab pins into your own eyeballs than look at the bigger picture.
You keep making these myopic pronouncements about blah blah politics interfering blah without seeing that this incident was both caused by politics, and had political ramifications. These exist independently of the rights and wrongs of individual actions and the law.
Left-leaning demonstrators were protesting injustice, which was political. A right-militia took it upon themselves to impose order, because that's their view from their political leanings. We can add in issues of gun rights and self-defence, etc.. This was, instrinsically from the off, a highly politically charged scenario and so Rittenhouse's role, whether he likes it or not, instantly made him a cause celebre and poster boy for the US right.
With this background, that he killed three protestors and was found not guilty cannot but be viewed by the US right as a vindication of them and their politics: and I say again, his subsequent hob-nobbing with Tucker Carlson and Trump are as clear proof as it gets of that. They are feting him so much because it plays to their right-wing audience. Across right wing media, the verdict is a "win": not a win for Rittenhouse as a defendant of a singular case, but a win for them and their ideology. He is their "saint" (yes, they have used that term), lighting the way. The more extreme elements of the right are already, across their scummy message boards, discussing how this creates precedent for them to carry out vigilanteism and "defend" themselves more in future. So yes, it has encouraged and enthused them, of course it has. Deal with it.
