Backlash against Mike Lee’s tasteless tweets reminds us that online cruelty has a real-world impact

It’s amazing how far a firebrand politician has to step over the line of decency in 2025 to prove that such a line even exists anymore. By any metric, U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah sprinted past that line over the weekend, with a deeply distasteful, macabre string of tweets about a political…