Four months just went by wherein the nation saw police officers targeted with violence, historical monuments vandalized, and innocent people harassed in the streets by Black Lives Matter mobs. But hey, what about those white supremacists?
That was the apparent logic guiding Chris Wallace as he prepared for the first presidential debate — a train of thought that makes me wonder if President Trump was onto something when he suggested that the event’s participants undergo a drug screening.
I know that the job of a “respectable” Washington journalist like Wallace is to pretend that both sides have their problems, but as far as the ever-elusive gang of white supremacists goes, it couldn’t be more obvious that that generally isn’t true.
It wasn’t a white supremacist who snuck up on two police officers in Los Angeles this month, shooting one in her jaw and the other in his forehead. It wasn’t a white supremacist who, in late August, targeted a Trump supporter in Portland and shot him dead.
No, those were Joe Biden’s people — the BLM crowd and the antifa members who are permitted to thrive in Democrat-run cities.
There has, so far, yet to be a single act of violence by a “white supremacist” provably linked to the president and yet the media, Chris Wallace included, are constantly calling on Trump to disavow them.
With a straight face, Wallace asked that Trump condemn the so-called Proud Boys, a group of maybe two dozen young men based out of New York, and who you’ve probably never heard of unless you’re on Twitter, or an avid reader of the liberal Daily Beast website.
According to the New York Times, some members of that group have gotten in a few fist fights in that city. In contrast, the “peaceful protesters” of the Black Lives Matter movement are torching buildings, intimidating random people in restaurants, and trashing small businesses.
Yes, but what about the white supremacists?!
The question is ridiculous, but at least Wallace gets to remain “respectable.”
