Democrats in the national media are dead set on convincing voters that what they’re seeing with their own eyes isn’t what’s happening, knowing full well that the racial violence taking place around the country isn’t a good look for them heading into November.
Case in point, the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson attempted this week to keep up the laughable lie that the Black Lives Matter rioters are peaceful nuns, merely seeking “justice and fairness.”
What do you mean you’ve seen an endless series of video clips of protesters screaming in the faces of innocent pedestrians, throwing bottles at police officers, torching small businesses, and vandalizing government property? They only want justice and fairness!
Naturally, any criticism of that activity, any suggestion that the lawless violence isn’t something worth supporting (any hint that, you know, maybe seeing major cities on fire night after night isn’t something we should want for America) has now become an occasion for accusing people of white supremacy.
“Trump’s message to Whites is unmistakable: Be afraid,” wrote Robinson. “Those people — you know who I mean — are trying to take over your country. I will stop them. All of this is nothing less than undisguised white supremacy. Trump wants White voters to fear the Black Lives Matter movement.”
What Trump may or may not “want” has very little to do with the fact that we just witnessed a sitting U.S. senator and his wife surrounded by threatening protesters as he walked down the upper-income streets of northwest Washington, D.C., all of them barking at him while police kept them at bay.
What’s to fear?! They only want justice and fairness!
By the way, let’s go ahead and dispense with the notion that “justice and fairness” are anything resembling what we’ve considered those to be for the past two centuries. “Justice and fairness” to the average voter mean equal justice under the law and fair opportunity for everyone to create the life for themselves they want. Neither of those things is supposed to come at the expense of any other race, but that’s precisely what the Black Lives Matter movement implies by demanding reparations and racial quotas.
This is what the country looks like today, and Robinson is far from alone in excusing and encouraging it.
Normal people are naturally going to look for someone or something to restore order, even if that means abandoning their initial honest support for the Black Lives Matter crowd, which had been based on the simple and uncontroversial idea that black lives do matter.
Polls already show this happening. The survey and data-crunching website FiveThirtyEight wrote late last month that “unfavorable views of the police are trending back down toward their pre-protest levels among white Americans and have dipped among Black Americans.” It added, “White respondents are also becoming somewhat less likely to say that African Americans face ‘a lot’ or ‘a great deal’ of discrimination.”
Ordinary people do, in fact, have something to be afraid of, even if Robinson and others insist that it’s nothing more than a group of “peaceful” protesters who only want “justice and fairness.”
