Why does the Democratic chorus treat racism as though it were getting worse when, if you observe reality rather than rhetoric, America is enjoying increased racial harmony? One doesn’t need to be Panglossian to acknowledge this, merely awake and not scrutinizing the issue through blue-tinted glasses.
There is a constant accretion of words and opinions that are deemed and denounced as racist. What’s more, the accumulation seems purposeful, and is. So what is the purpose?
The answer is politics. Woke warriors presumably believe most of their intersectional claptrap, but politicians who parrot it are guilty not of such stupidity but of cynical calculation in the pursuit of power.
Democrats cannot win the White House without high black voter turnout and unless some 9 out of 10 of those votes line up in the blue column.
How to achieve that? Answer: You talk ceaselessly of Republicans and conservatives in general, and of President Trump in particular, as vile racists. Into the bargain, you support slavery reparations, promising a massive handout from the strapped federal treasury. (For the other ruinously expensive policy bribes sprouting in the Democratic presidential primary field, see Brian Riedl’s cover story, “Money To Burn.”)
Trump’s support actually rose among African Americans after he pointed out the “rat-infested” neglect of Baltimore, drawing attention to a problem experienced disproportionately by racial minorities. On race, as on most things, his rhetoric seems clumsy rather than evil, and he can also boast truthfully about record-low black unemployment and point to criminal justice reform.
If he can take even fractional black voter support away from the Democratic nominee by citing these successes, and by trusting those voters’ accurate sense of their true position during his administration, Trump may defy current polls and win next year.
Just as racism is exaggerated, so is the incidence of hate crimes. Robby Soave looks at the hair-raising statistics and finds that they are distorted by politics and poor social science. In short, they just don’t add up.
James Poulos does equally thorough forensic work poring through the left-liberal policies that have wrecked or are wrecking Democratic-run cities, which means nearly all the big cities in America. If you subsidize bad behavior, if you make it easier, that is what more people will do. Who’d have thought it?
In my brief remaining space I’d like to draw your attention to our editorials. The first condemns impeachment-obsessed Democrats who are conducting what amounts to a show trial on Capitol Hill so they can throw red meat to their deepest blue followers in the resistance. The second exposes the way they have tired of constitutional impediments to their agenda and have added the Constitution to the list of things they wish to destroy.
