I think some of the more intelligent US Nazis are letting the bozos do their thing and riding the coat-tails and avoiding direct blame if things turn. I’m looking at a good chunk of the House and Senate.

Technically, it is a skill issue though, but requires borderline perfection to achieve safe code. It’s still a bad argument and detracts from progress in an area where it’s sorely needed. Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that everything unsafe is because the logic used left something exposed where rust has rules in the language the prevents those had coding practices. C is inherently unsafe, it just doesn’t have built in safe guards to keep the dev from using it wrong.