August 27, 2020
Don Lemon breaks down, begs Democrats: 'The rioting has to stop'
By Taylor Lewis
Don Lemon's timbre has never quivered so much. Even when he wept while reciting his own philippic to President Trump, the CNN host wasn't this unmistakably grave.
"The rioting has to stop ... it's showing up in the polling, it's showing up in focus groups," he warned Tuesday night, referencing the nightly violence in cities like Portland, Ore. and Kenosha, Wis. Lemon was conversing with fellow host and quarantine scofflaw Chris Cuomo, but he was speaking directly to his target audience: Democrats, elected or otherwise.
"Joe Biden has got to address [the riots]," Lemon urged. Like a longcase, Biden's social-media intern keyed out a tweet the next morning. Message received, apparently: "I promise you that as president, I will protect America. I will protect you and your family."
There was no explicit mention of riots, the conscious conflagration swallowing small businesses on urban high streets. Nor were the threats defined. Instead of opting for the usual liberal vernacular of "shadowy" or "fascistic" dangers to democracy, Biden quoted, likely by mistake, French free-market economist Frédéric Bastiat, calling the threats "seen and unseen."
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