The Kyle Rittenhouse Story Is Completely Fucking Insane To Anyone Who’s Not American

An explainer for people who don’t understand freedom

Patrick Metzger

Published in

The Bad Influence

4 min readNov 14, 2021

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UPDATE: November 19, 2021 Rittenhouse acquitted of all charges.

The Rittenhouse trial confirms beyond a doubt what we’ve suspected for a while: a sizeable chunk of Americans will enthusiastically endorse any…

Patrick Metzger

Written by Patrick Metzger

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