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| Is Biden Ceding the Law-and-Order Issue? |
| 2020-08-28 |
| Pat Buchanan at Townhall s Joe Biden forfeiting the law-and-order issue to Donald Trump? So it would seem. "Republicans Use Law and Order As Rallying Cry" was the top headline on The New York Times' front-page story on Vice President Mike Pence's acceptance speech at Fort McHenry Wednesday night. The Wall Street Journal Page One headline echoed the Times: "Pence Accepts Nomination as GOP Puts Focus on Police." In his address, Pence charged Biden with sinning by silence in failing to denounce the rioters, looters and arsonists who have for months attacked police and pillaged Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Kenosha and other cities. Said Pence: "Last week, Joe Biden did not say one word about the violence and chaos engulfing cities across this country. "Joe Biden says that America is systemically racist, and that law enforcement in America has... 'implicit bias against minorities.' When asked whether he'd support cutting funding to law enforcement, Joe Biden replied, 'Yes, absolutely.' "Joe Biden would double down on the very policies that are leading to unsafe streets and violence in American cities. ... You will not be safe in Joe Biden's America." Now, it is inexact to say Biden would "defund" the police. When the big agenda item of Black Lives Matter was first raised, Biden rushed to say he would reform the police and increase spending. ...It is three months since George Floyd ceased to breathe under the knee of that Minneapolis cop. But it is also three months to the election. And the political tide is turning, visibly and hard, against the arsonists and anarchists conducting the nightly rampages against cops across America. The weariness of the public with the riots is palpable. The claim that these are but the understandable excesses of "peaceful protests" is getting stale. And the reaction against the riots and ruin in the Black communities, for whom they are allegedly being conducted, is growing. Black leaders in urban areas are saying we want good cops, but we also want more cops to protect our people from gun-toting gangbangers who are running up rising weekly kill rates. Tuesday, video surfaced of a mob of radicals surrounding, berating, cursing and threatening a woman at a D.C. diner. Her crime? She had refused to submit to demands she raise her fist in a Black Power salute and proclaim, "Black Lives Matter!" ...We are beginning to see how this all unfolds. And from here, it looks like the Democratic left is going to be the loser on all counts. First, the big mandate -- "Defund the police!" -- has backfired. The Biden media daily testify to its unpopularity by insisting Biden never endorsed it. Where police department budgets have been cut, shooting and homicide rates have soared. And Biden's refusal to endorse the mandate tells you what Democrats' polls are telling them. The police bill passed by Nancy Pelosi's House featuring restrictions on chokeholds has been ignored by the Senate, and Republicans do not appear to be suffering for having ignored it. The smashing of statues, which has escalated from Columbus to Catholic missionaries and saints, to Confederate generals and statesmen like Lee, Jackson and Jefferson Davis, to the four presidents on Mount Rushmore -- Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, TR -- is now seen even by liberal elites as excessive. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Charger's got it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-08-28 15:36 |
| #6 Biden seems to be going for the 'don't believe your lying eyes.' vote. I hope enough people believe their own senses and not the narrative but I have some smart friends from college that are still spouting the same old nonsense. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-08-28 14:48 |
| #5 All of the destruction was enabled by elected Democratic officials: mayors, DAs, council members. Democrat money funds them. Yes, but there are many incurious fools who will look for the easiest answer, which is "It's all Trump's fault. CNN and NPR say so!" And there are the other "smart" ones who just know that paying the Dane his Geld is the practical thing to do. There are even many on the Right who actually pride themselves on such "practicality". |
| Posted by: charger 2020-08-28 13:14 |
| #4 They couldn't possibly restrain the arsonists and looters because they ARE Antifa/BLM. One & the same. All of the destruction was enabled by elected Democratic officials: mayors, DAs, council members. Democrat money funds them. Democrat lies & propaganda guides them. The Democrat Party owns this - lock, stock and Molotov cocktail |
| Posted by: Albemarle Gray4817 2020-08-28 09:38 |
| #3 They don't have the stomach for it. You'd be surprised. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-28 07:43 |
| #2 "You chose...poorly" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-08-28 07:30 |
| #1 The only way they can distance themselves between now and the election is to go full Mongol on Antifa-BLM. They don't have the stomach for it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-08-28 07:08 |