My understanding: The two-strikes plan is a really nasty thing in many ways which is perhaps understood almost unanimously in HN crowd. The politician in quest

My understanding: The two-strikes plan is a really nasty thing in many ways which is perhaps understood almost unanimously in HN crowd. The politician in question obviously does not understand that. He's the player at the poker table who doesn't know who's the weakest player at the said table. Therefore, he is that weakest player. He is therefore an idiot, as you have stated. But the problem is that he is a dangerous idiot, and people are generally happy when a dangerous idiot is crushed by his own stupidity. He was dangerous and we could not do anything; but too good, he took care of that himself. Nobody realistically expects the said law to be applied to the said politician. But suggesting that increases the level of that politician's misery and perhaps would teach a lesson to other dangerous idiots.