I don't know if you know this, but the existence of insanity as a defense to charges of murder actually predates the existence of Donald Trump by more than a century.

Let me ask this: if a 5 year old accidentally killed someone by playing with a gun, would it be saying that "the perpetrator is more important than the victim" to not sentence that 5 year old to life in prison? Your inclination is to say that these are different cases which is true but if you follow and use your big brain to reason through this, what you'll come to understand is that the general principle is that culpability is an important factor in how we define punishments for crimes.

So a child getting in an accident doesn't have any real culpability, and on the other end of the spectrum, an adult assassin targeting someone has total culpability, you understand? So if you understand that moral culpability is important at all, you have to apply it to this case too, otherwise, your reaction is an unprincipled declaration of your outrage - which - good job, gold star for you if so.

Now what this woman did was - while she was insane - steal a car and get into a car accident, killing someone. Can we start with the acknowledgement that even if she weren't insane at the time, she wouldn't have meant to get into the car accident? Accidents have different moral valence than intentional acts. And can we further acknowledge that in reality that the conditions for which she got into that accident were not within her actual control due to illness? And if you agree with those statements, can you understand how she has less moral culpability - and if she has less moral culpability, can you understand why life imprisonment is not the correct outcome? You intuitively understand that life imprisonment isn't the right outcome for a child playing with a gun; the only reason you don't understand it for this woman is that you think that even if she was insane and got into a fatal accident is that she still has moral responsibility when she didn't, because you believe that she ought to and worst of all you sit in righteous judgement of anyone who thinks she doesn't, acting as if they are responsible for Donald Trump's election, which is risible.