Charles Blow at the New York Times wouldn’t be so bummed out if he and other liberals in the media hadn’t interpreted the immediate outrage following the death of George Floyd as a license to go nuts with a list of demands that had nothing to do with Floyd.

Blow wrote Sunday: “Much of what we saw in response to protests amounted to performative gestures, symbolism that cost nothing and shifted no power. We must come to the conclusion that some of what we saw as a racial awakening was prone to whither. Some of what we saw was people cosplaying consciousness, immersing themselves in the issue of the moment.”