“What makes you so confident you should be president?” is an actual question a reporter shouted at the incumbent who just warned about a reckless court decision that imperils democracy
“Those other guys knew the rules and the risks. They made their choices.”
There is a deep-seated belief that people only suffer if they deserve it, so if *you* don’t deserve it, you won’t suffer.
Same with disability, with homelessness, even with abuse victims or targets of killers (“true crime”).
According to Trump he currently has final say over whether or not a journalist held prisoner in Russia gets to come home, so, he is in effect holding a journalist hostage. And yet...