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By Megan McArdle
Columnist
June 12 at 6:22 PM
There are some stories that just make you want to send everyone involved to their rooms to have a good long think about their behavior. The saga of the Trump T-shirt That Shook Houston is definitely one of those.

The shirt was worn to a local shop by a 14-year-old girl in March. While she and her friends were standing in line, a woman waiting behind them started shouting, “Grab ’em by the p---y!” and “MAGA!”

This being 2018, the girl’s mother went straight to social media. It soon emerged that the woman who had harassed the girls was a local City Council member, Kellye Burke.

Thus far, it’s a wearily familiar story: the obnoxious initial offense, followed by an outpouring of social-media hate onto the target-of-the-moment. Then some of the parents decided Burke had not been avid enough in proffering a private apology. That’s when they called the police.

Now things were wildly out of control. There were lawyers. There was a public apology by Burke, which managed to sound remarkably unapologetic. A council meeting was disrupted. Houston, as Texas Monthly recently put it, had lost its mind.