[Billthedrill]

There is undeniably an element of race in this election but I don't think it's particularly fundamental and doubt if it would be there at all were it not put there by an insanely aggressive hate campaign on the part of racial activists on the other side that is BLM. That's not the way to set a narrative but that's what they've done. This does not touch the insulated elites, but it does touch everybody else.

It was actually a pretty effective scam run over the past decade plus, this notion that the Left could capture words and make them un-sayable, capture thoughts and make them unthinkable, capture the public discourse and make it strictly one-way, condescending, hectoring, and at last alienating. The upshot is a level of pushback that is no longer susceptible to being dismissed as racism, sexism, bigotry, etc, etc. It isn't going to be dismissed at all. Activists have pushed the social envelope into a minefield and they're pretending outrage when it blows up in their faces.

Nor is this the sort of thing that is likely to be able to be turned on a dime by a cleverly crafted media campaign, although Lord knows they're trying. Half of the Left is saying we must be united and the other half is saying only if you're relegated to the back of the bus. It just isn't going to work that way.

[tomkat]

Extremely well said, sir !

[wastoute]

It was one of their heroes that said, “When you make non violent change impossible you make violent change inevitable.”