One moment, you’re living your best life, shouting anti-racist platitudes into a bullhorn outside Gracie Mansion in your sensible coat, and the next, someone else living his best life climbs over you and throws a bomb at the police. This is what happened to Walter Masterson as he exercised his constitutional right to signal his virtue outside the residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on March 7. It’s a perfect metaphor for the madness of the last decade, and how performative liberalism runs cover for terrorism, the “propaganda of the deed.”

“As a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone into the city,” Walter Masterson bullhorned at a group of anti-Islam protestors and the NYPD. “You don’t get to come from outside and tell everyone else…”