By Buck Sexton
It would be hard to think of an idea more manifestly idiotic than “defund the police.”
To mobilize the Democrats into the streets during a nationwide pandemic lockdown, the institutional Left, woke corporations, and the hysterical media embraced the cynical lie that police in America are systemically racist and murder unarmed black men routinely and without consequence. In the short term, this was effective politics... Months of Democrat riots in the summer of 2020 galvanized the most radical elements of the political Left and put them in a position to dictate the narrative to the more mainstream elements of their party. The chaos they created
For such a slogan to become the mainstream rallying cry of Left-wing community organizers and media elites during a stunning rise in murders and homicides nationwide would seem unfathomable... But that is exactly what happened last year. When the Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) movement rose in June of 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Democrats saw it as an opportunity. America was already reeling from COVID-19, and there was a tremendous national anxiety to exploit.
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