June 23, 2020
Democrats and fellow leftists are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
By Andrea Widburg
Much as Democrats would like to deny it, the reality is that Americans were unanimous in condemning how George Floyd died at police hands in a Democrat-run city. Even after learning that Floyd was a career criminal hopped up on drugs when he met his death, Americans were willing to accept the Democrats’ (and their fellow leftists’) demands for police reform. Had Democrats stopped there, they could have achieved yet another incremental leftward push for their political agenda, a victory they could have put towards their next moment of political theater.
The problem is that Democrats have trained their army of college grads, minorities, and other victim groups to view words as violence, to hate America’s institutions, and to believe that hysteria is persuasive. Once you unleash these emotionally unstable and factually ignorant foot soldiers on the world, they are unstoppable, even if it’s in the best interests of their cause that they stop.
The looting was bad enough, but Americans were still on board with the fundamental (although factually false) notion that police are disproportionately attacking blacks. Now, though, Americans have witnessed CHAZ (or CHOP), which began by building walls, demanding “citizen†identification, instituting segregation, assaulting Christians, and appointing warlords, and then quickly devolved into gunfights, murder, and rape.
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