I agree with all of that except your guess at my level of understanding.You don’t live in the US and probably don’t understand the underlying tensions in areas like Kenosha, as well as how politicized everything is. I am one of the few people I know who thinks Rittenhouse’s biggest crime is being a gullible fudging idiot, and that he has actually been used by right-wing facists to further their agendas along several different lines. I also think he should’ve been locked up, however that doesn’t stop me from seeing him as a sad and pathetic example of a youthful macaron being manipulated by rich extremists.
It's been a long while since I spent time in the US other than holidays, but I've spent enough time there to know the place.
What is new and confusing to me is this generation of teetotal, vegan fudgewits who insist on seeing racism in everything. I'll happily admit I cannot understand them.