In the aftermath of 9/11 — the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil — the country was united. We all agreed that terrorism — the use of violence to stoke fear and intimidation to achieve a political or ideological goal — is bad. But in the years since, what should be an obvious accepted truth within any civilized nation has been diluted with doses of supposed nuance, irrelevant context, and shameless political bias.
We saw it in 2020, when hordes of masked criminals took to the streets to “protest” the death of George Floyd (and the subject of racism more broadly) by looting stores, destroying cities, and assaulting law enforcement. But then, at least the American Left — safe behind their security guards and perimeter fences — was subtle, fueling the violence by rebranding it as simply “fiery, but mostly peaceful.”
