Profile of Kenosha protest killer Kyle Rittenhouse

Read Paige Williams' excellent profile of Kyle Rittenhouse, the cop-obsessed teenager who took his illegally-owned AR-15 to a protest and killed two people there during a scuffle. Without defending his behavior, it is made unambiguously clear that Rittenhouse has been grifted to the bone by the right-wing culture warriors who latched onto him, set up shady fundraisers in his name, and posed him with white supremacists and proud boys. — Read the rest