“Nutter” is British slang for a casually unhinged person. There’s an episode in the British political satire, The Thick of It (think Veep, but far more acerbic), titled “Rise of the Nutters.” It charts the power jockeying of incompetent politicians following a prime minister’s decision to resign.

I offer the nutter reference because most Americans are not nutters. Most Americans share sadness over what happened at the Capitol last week. But there are also a few Americans who believe it is a tragedy that more people weren’t slaughtered. Then there are a few more who support not simply silencing the president’s Twitter (which even German Chancellor Angela Merkel notes is ill-advised), but introducing an American Enabling Act. A new code of speech, this is to say, that grants freedom only to adherents of left-wing orthodoxy. These are the new nutters of the political Right and Left.