Phew I’m glad someone else made the wheat field joke, I was worried that whole horrifying period of time had been the product of sone kind of fever dream
I think this is an interesting overlap between "liberals somehow manage to make even crime looked milquetoast and uncool" and "liberals somehow manage to make even milquetoast and uncool bullshit look like crime."
That's just the tip of the iceberg, they also used to dip their fingers in their fathers' beer pints to taste the foam, in a shameful display of underage alcoholism.