If the Left could resist its urge to malign (implicitly or explicitly) millions of well-meaning people who cross partisan (and racial) boundaries as racists, conversations would come easier. What drives people to Trump is that he’s not afraid to (a) speak plainly on his dislike of the protests and (b) bat down the inevitable accusations of racism that follow. In many ways, the latter is actually more important.
As we’ve argued before, much of the Left operates with a broader definition of racism than the rest of the country, one that lumps, for instance, a patriotic independent in suburban Milwaukee into a category society has long reserved for neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. As you can imagine, that’s infuriating for decent people who believe fully in racial equality but don’t believe kneeling for the national anthem is an appropriate form of protest.
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