This shit is fucking bizarre. A news paper bemoaning the ignorance of the people it's supposed to inform. Hey, NYT, do think it's possible that maybe, just maybe, it wasn't a good idea to normalize, make both-sides-ist distortions, sanewash, and over-contextualize this threat? It's pretty rich to just drop in at the end and act all bewildered, like 'why in the world are people treating this like it's normal?!?'. 

You really don't know, huh?

Yeah, that tracks.