The Trump position comes down to "This isn't a real war, so it can't be a real war crime." They are entirely enclosed in their own invented "reality" and want us in there with them.

The only question is whether the pardon comes before or after the prosecution.

Yes. There is a national picture of a zero sum universe. It is even a little worse than you say. Whites have been convinced that denying benefits to non-whites isn't enough; they belief that wheevern the non-whites LOSE something whites are necessarily winning something as a result.

Extra-judicial homicide of the harmless (even of prisoners of "war" by the Secretary of "War") is a high crime. Congress should demand his resignation and should impeach.

And what is being performed in this performative deployment of red state troops to subordinate a majority/minority blue state cities. Performing colonialism, with the frontline people paying the price.

Maybe because gun ownership and carrying is restricted in NY compared with........

If, for example, Mamdani and Spangenberger appeared jointly and both said "I agree with you on the vertical axis", there are things I have to listen to on the horizontal axis, and I'll listen to you" they can model a new approach.

With respect, IMO it is a fundamental error to sustain the "left/righ" axis as the defining issue. It will take a concerted effort to do this, but a vertical "have too much / have too little / have none" axis has to be recognized as the battlefield. Wealth extraction upward is an emergency.