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Opposition to Epstein's crimes are far too interwoven into the fabric of the cult-right/q-anon cult's identity and mythos for them to let this go. Its not that they care about children, its that even Trump doesn't supersede the collective rage they're attached too with their belief in a "secret evil cabal" and "deepstate". Protecting children is just a convenient justification for what is mostly just bitter reactionary politics towards a changing world economy or culture. Always has been.
Even if with Epstein they're at least overlapping with the truth (Epstein was a human trafficker and rapist and many who hung out with him were rapists as well), you shouldn't mistake that reactionary rage for an earnest desire to fix things or protect the innocent. They just want a justification to hurt people. They want someone to burn at the stake.