It started with Aaron Bushnell, a dissatisfied Airman who went down the woke rabbit hole all the way to Antifa, calling for the murder of American soldiers, ended by setting himself on fire in support of Hamas.

Leftists and the media predictably celebrated Bushnell which was a great way to send the message to every mentally leftist freak that they could be venerated if only they set themselves on fire.

The results aren’t too surprising.

The man who lit himself on fire in a park outside former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial was arrested three times in Florida last year – including for throwing wine at a framed autograph featuring Bill Clinton, according to police records.

The Left would have turned him into a hero if he had only done it for Hamas, but the venue is a bit confusing, as is his history as having the typical stability of an MSNBC viewer.

Then on Aug. 24 he was seen on surveillance video allegedly writing on a small sign outside the Little Free Library before breaking a pest control sign next door, according to a police report.

The destroyed sign warned passerby the yard had been treated and that pets and children should stay away from it, per the police report.

“Azzarello was misinterpreting the sign and was telling me that the pest control company was there to exterminate children and dogs,” an officer wrote in the report.

Would Max have set himself on fire if the media hadn’t turned Bushnell into a celebrity? Maybe. Maybe not.

It’s much like the school shooter situation. If the media hadn’t turned the Columbine school shooters into celebs, we likely wouldn’t have an entire trend of school shootings. Some of the perps might have done other destructive things, but there’s no question that the media turned school shootings into a trend.

(And has never taken any responsibility for it.)

Now the media has helped turn self-immolation into a trend. After two of these, I won’t be too surprised if we get more of this social contagion.

Psychos setting themselves on fire is relatively harmless compared to mass shootings, but it’s another example of the disastrous media-fed social contagion that’s claiming lives.