America’s Make-Believe Moment
It just might be later than you think.
by Daniel J. Flynn
June 5, 2020, 12:00 AM
Let’s all pretend a Republican now serves as mayor of Minneapolis rather than for one day out of the last 59 years.
Let’s all pretend Democrats do not enjoy a political monopoly over every big city plagued by the worst violence.
Let’s all pretend white supremacists and Nazis and Russians destroyed American cities rather than the people who vote for the people saying white supremacists and Nazis and Russians destroyed American cities.
Let’s all pretend that one cop’s inhumanity indicts the entirety of law enforcement but many activists’ violence says nothing about the protests.
Let’s all pretend the marchers and the looters do not overlap but represent totally separate phenomena with no interconnection whatsoever.
Let’s all pretend that crime sprees that follow rallies that call for the abolition of prisons and police come as entirely unpredictable outcomes.
Let’s all pretend that abolishing prisons, an idea surely scoffed at by Derek Chauvin two weeks ago, does not now grow on him.
Let’s all pretend that if 1 percent of the bloodshed witnessed at the protests occurred during a Donald Trump rally or a pro-life march then CNN would fervently insist on separating the bad apples from the batch.
Let’s all pretend that police brutality sustains these riots rather than police passivity.
Let’s all pretend that citizens who destroy businesses nearly destroyed by a lockdown exhibit a superior social consciousness.
Let’s all pretend that the protests against coronavirus shutdowns unpatriotically endangered public health but the protests days later against the police patriotically promoted public safety.
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