Many “centrist” liberals are going through this process of re-narrativizing the last ten years to exculpate themselves for either abetting the breakdown of our civic architecture or being so in thrall to their moral vanity that they actively opposed anyone on the right who tried to stop it.
They are also now, as a part of this narcissistic process of self-rehabilitation, trying to claim the mantle of moral authority, as the true keepers of the flame.
They should not be granted any legitimacy. They should not for a second be granted any say in what new norms are built on the ash heap of what they watched burn down.