Welcome to Democracy-ish. I am Danielle Moody, joined once again by my pal, my friend in arms, which it feels like because we're at battle uh daily beast colonists

and the author of go back to where you came from wajahat ali wash it's just another brilliant

day in america where extremism is you knowaring its head. You came across something that was published

in your outlet. Let's talk about this latest school shooting, which we talked about last week.

But we have now learned more about Ethan Crumbly, the 15-year-old murderer.

We're learning about him and we're also learning about his family.

But I want you to pick up on what is very interesting about the Crumblies?

Yes, Ethan Crumbly, a 15-year-old who was charged as an adult for murdering four people,

and they've investigated his journals and writings.

It was completely premeditated.

Use the gun bought by his father.

Four days later, took that gun and shot up his school,

and we saw the videos of students wearing masks escaping the window.

And now more and more stories of students acting like superheroes and, you know, like that

football student who went in to protect his fellow classmates and, you know, was one of the

people killed because that's what we expect of our kids now, not just to learn, but also survive and then somehow become Superman and die for fellow kids. Well, you know,

one thing I'll say, and Daily Beast published a letter, an open letter that his mother had

published in favor of Donald Trump a couple of years ago. And after I read this letter, let's just talk about what would happen if, oh, I don't know

if it was a black kid instead of Ethan Crumbly or a brown kid or a Muslim kid who did this.

So this was an open letter written by Ethan Crumbly's mom to Donald Trump.

And I'm just going to quote some juicy

parts of this exquisite letter. Folks, hold on to your hats here. Crumley, yeah, Crumbly went on

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