“Say their names,” they chant. But everyone in America knows the name of George Floyd. As we do the name of the policeman sent to life in prison for killing him.

Yet like the huckster pastors, BLM pretends otherwise. They present a false reality and then present a false solution. How convenient for them that the solution just happens to enrich themselves.

So, just as Peter Popoff pretended that he could wash away all your ills with his magical spiritual water, so BLM pretended that if you sent in the checks, then they could address the illness of America. They presented America as irredeemably racist and then said only they could redeem this country. How the money rolled in.

And it wasn’t just credulous individuals, but huge corporations, companies and the super-rich who paid up. Like guilds paying off the church of old, large financial institutions made vast payments to BLM. In part like some kind of protection racket. “Our company can’t be racist because we support BLM,” they said. “So make sure that next time there are riots the mob moves right on by us and burns the place next door. For we are the chosen ones.”