The weird fandom around Lindsay Clancy is the newest instance of a ethical rot infecting a small cohort of conspiracy-minded, self-engrossed ladies.

In a clear case of feminine empathy gone awry, they have remodeled a Massachusetts nurse who strangled her three infants into the sole sufferer in this tragedy, while demonizing their poor father, Patrick.

The murdered youngsters, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months, barely get a point out in the outpouring of support for Lindsay, who has become a automobile for the “TikTok Moms’ ” own faux victimhood.

Lindsay has pleaded not responsible to the 2023 homicide of her youngsters who she methodically strangled, one by one, with train bands after sending Patrick out to decide up dinner and medicines. She does not dispute that she killed the youngsters but claims she was “suffering from psychosis at the time.”

The prosecution contends she “acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to accomplish a very specific goal — to kill . . . She knew exactly what she was doing.”

The five-week trial has been televised to an more and more obsessive viewers of true crime nuts, assorted snoops and a disturbing quantity of ladies who have taken to filming themselves holding infants and whining about how exhausting it is to be a mother.

Some ladies even caption their TikTok movies “Same, Lindsay.”

It’s a twisted type of attention-seeking in the guise of empathy. These ladies are normalizing the horror of a mom killing her youngsters, making it appear like a pure response to the on a regular basis challenges of child-rearing, which far-less privileged ladies have managed to navigate since the daybreak of time, like every other problem in life.

‘We are all Lindsay’

Lindsay followers have raised virtually $1 million in the identify of her mother and father, and a whole lot dressed in pink and rallied for her outside the courtroom last week.

“We are all Lindsay” is their sick message.

One lady sobbed on digital camera that Lindsay can’t hug her youngsters’s stuffed toys because her merciless husband supposedly threw them away. But what about the youngsters who can’t hug their toys? The father who can’t hug his youngsters?

It’s the same inversion behind the Luigi Mangione fangirls, the London mob who valorized Cambridge hoaxer Jason Arday and the demonization of Erika Kirk.

The Lindsay frenzy goes hand in hand with the left’s upending of the ethical order, in which sympathy is reserved for murderers, rapists and unlawful migrant youngster molesters while police must be defunded, ICE abolished and prisons closed.

Lindsay Clancy watches as her legal professional Kevin Reddington prepares to interview a witness during proceedings in her homicide trial, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. Mark Chavous/Pool The Enterprise via AP

The Clancy trial is merely a promotional automobile for this new amorality.

There is a cleaning soap opera pathos to this real-life drama of a good household brutalized by unspeakable tragedy.

Each day, the folks who liked the youngsters finest have been called to the witness field: the husband, the mother and father, the in-laws, the sister, the pals, the nanny — all with the same haunted look. You marvel at the public curiosity of televising their personal grief.

Patrick’s father, Chris Clancy, described them as “the all-American family” and praised Lindsay as a “very, very good mother.”

True anguish

But unlike a cleaning soap opera, there are no simple villains in this case, aside from the one individual who dedicated the crime, whose struggling is unimaginable to low cost.

Lindsay, 36, presents as a sympathetic determine in courtroom. She is in a wheelchair because a suicide try left her paralyzed from the waist down. She sits wan and largely silent, quietly sobbing when the youngsters are talked about, her face half-hidden by her lengthy, lustrous brown hair.

In a second that encapsulates the heartbreak of this household cataclysm, she broke down one day during graphic post-mortem testimony, whimpering “I can’t do this” as a health worker described the ligature marks around Cora’s neck and the damaged blood vessels in her eyes and said it would have been a painful dying for the little woman.

Only a coronary heart of stone could fail to be moved by Lindsay’s anguish.

But she confirmed her youngsters no mercy that day and this trial is for them. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham makes that level to the jury by sporting bows in her hair every day in reminiscence of Cora who liked large bows in her comfortable blonde hair.

All three youngsters died the same painful approach; Dawson first, then Cora and lastly child Callan, who was still alive when paramedics discovered him but died in the hospital.

After strangling her youngsters, Lindsay left them in the basement while she went upstairs to her bed room, slit her wrists and throat and threw herself out the second-story window onto the snow-covered garden under where her husband discovered her when he returned from the errands she had despatched him on.

You marvel how a lady could inflict such unimaginable cruelty on her husband, not to mention her youngsters.

First responders on the scene described primal howls of ache coming from the basement when Patrick discovered his infants after paramedics arrived to deal with his spouse.

Demonized dad

Evidence before the courtroom is that the cuts to Lindsay’s wrist and neck were superficial, main the prosecution to counsel that it was a faux suicide try, which the protection denies. She virtually died.

Lindsay has said she heard a voice instructing her to kill the youngsters and her attorneys claim she was struggling from postpartum psychosis, a uncommon ailment that often happens instantly after childbirth, not eight months later.

Patrick, 38, is admirably stoic in his testimony but when requested to describe each of his youngsters, he could barely get the phrases out. He and his mother and father have been remarkably sympathetic to Lindsay in their testimony, describing her as a devoted mom. He comes across as a affected person, considerate husband who did everything humanly attainable to assist his spouse with an sickness he couldn’t absolutely fathom.

He has since remarried, which is deemed a capital offense by the Lindsay followers who interpret his stoicism as guilt.

Lisa Rinna, the pneumatic-lipped actress of “Real Housewives” fame, is typical of this halfwit crew, and took to social media last week to allege: “Patrick’s the one who did it . . . Not Lindsay. Patrick did it. Because [I] heard that women, typically, don’t strangle.”

It’s exhausting to perceive why the grieving father is topic to such vitriol, other than the truth that he’s a man, which is a crime in itself to the perpetually offended TikTok brigades.

Closing arguments start this week so we will quickly see if the jury finds Lindsay mad or unhealthy. Either approach she will be locked away for a very long time, whether in jail or a psychiatric facility.

That’s unhappy, but her youngsters deserve more sympathy for the lives they never had a probability to stay.