When I was in college, we had a speaker who’d been an activist during the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. He went around filming war crimes, and sending the videos to major media outlets. He found that his efforts did not have the intended effect, because the perpetrators were not ashamed of their actions. They didn’t hide their faces, and would waive to the camera before summary executions.
I thought this entire episode was fantastically naïve and ill-conceived.
Did he think these crimes were an accident? Did he think holding up a mirror would have stopped NSDAP? Or the Khmer Rouge?
Compared to the way the Democrats are handling this iteration, his “activism” was downright enlightened.