The Decline and Fall of Todd Kincannon

Back in the dim mists of geologic Twitter time (say, five years ago), South Carolina lawyer Todd Kincannon was a must-follow.

The self-proclaimed “Honey Badger of American Politics,” Kincannon made his reputation helping put child molesters behind bars and was briefly chairman of the South Carolina GOP. On Twitter, Kincannon​ earned a no-holds-barred reputation attacking liberals. Instapundit once said “Punch back twice as hard.” Kincannon punched back ten times as hard. He also set up the Twitter Gulag Defense Network (TGDN), an effort to get conservatives on Twitter to follow each other to boost their subscriber numbers above a level that made it more difficult for Twitter to ban them.

Somewhere along the line, Kincannon went from clever trolling to crude trolling to getting kicked off Twitter to being arrested for domestic abuse and losing his law license. He’s not even on Gab anymore.

Fast forward to the present. If the police report is to be believed, Kincannon killed his mother’s dog, claimed God commanded him to do it, and claimed he was the second coming of Christ.

Assuming the accuracy of the report, Mr. Kincannon is not a well man and should be confined to involuntary commitment in a mental institution until he is no longer a danger to himself and others,

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