At Breitbart, John Nolte writes a longish, funny-if-you're-conservative column with the general theme being urban unrest is Democrats beating up on Democrats, and that's a good thing. The more they destroy themselves, including defunding the police, the more abstract philosophical justice is served.
Though he never uses the term, schadenfreude is what he's celebrating. Democrat-run cities are getting what they voted for; as H.L. Mencken once cracked, "getting it good and hard."
It couldn't happen to a more deserving group. Folks should live with the consequences of their choices. Hat tip to Ed Driscoll at Instapundit for the link.
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Counterintuitive Polling
John Hinderaker at Power Line cites data from a Rasmussen Reports poll of likely voters asking for their level of approval for the job performance of President Trump. Forty-eight percent of all likely voters approve.
41% of black likely voters approve which includes twenty-five percent of black voters who strongly approve; the poll was taken yesterday.
Are you astounded? I confess I am. Nothing in the media, including Fox News, would lead me to guess those findings. I mean, it is somewhat logical based on economics and his work on reducing incarceration, but it sure doesn't fit the current press narrative.
We are asked to believe anger at police doesn't translate into anger at POTUS when he has been crystal clear about his pro-police views. And yet Rasmussen Reports is no fly-by-night outfit, Power Line reproduces their Tweet with the findings. I'm going to need confirmatory polling from another source before I consider this finding credible.
41% of black likely voters approve which includes twenty-five percent of black voters who strongly approve; the poll was taken yesterday.
Are you astounded? I confess I am. Nothing in the media, including Fox News, would lead me to guess those findings. I mean, it is somewhat logical based on economics and his work on reducing incarceration, but it sure doesn't fit the current press narrative.
We are asked to believe anger at police doesn't translate into anger at POTUS when he has been crystal clear about his pro-police views. And yet Rasmussen Reports is no fly-by-night outfit, Power Line reproduces their Tweet with the findings. I'm going to need confirmatory polling from another source before I consider this finding credible.
D Day Remembered
Today we remember D Day, the Allied landings on the shores of Normandy and the successful invasion of Nazi-held Europe. It was the largest amphibious attack in history, a record it will probably hold for the foreseeable future.
U.S., British and Canadian troops participated in the landing, on beaches named Gold, Omaha, Sword, Juno, and Utah. Since there was no place to dock ships, much came ashore over the unsheltered beaches during the first few days. Allied control of the skies over the landing beaches was near-total and made a huge difference.
The Allies actually built a sheltered harbor on the coast by sinking on the relatively shallow bottom old ships and giant hollow concrete boxes code named "mulberries" to create an enclosed area. Remnants of this man-made 'harbor' can still be seen.
In addition to the troops who waded ashore, many paras and glider borne troops were dropped behind German lines to create chaos and interfere with enemy reinforcements reaching the front. These were intended to cooperate with the French resistance, and sometimes succeeded.
Airborne troops took heavy casualties as it was not possible to drop tanks to fight beside them. Those wading ashore were also badly mauled. We owe them all a great debt as their success shortened the war a lot and, indirectly, kept Western Europe from becoming Communist.
U.S., British and Canadian troops participated in the landing, on beaches named Gold, Omaha, Sword, Juno, and Utah. Since there was no place to dock ships, much came ashore over the unsheltered beaches during the first few days. Allied control of the skies over the landing beaches was near-total and made a huge difference.
The Allies actually built a sheltered harbor on the coast by sinking on the relatively shallow bottom old ships and giant hollow concrete boxes code named "mulberries" to create an enclosed area. Remnants of this man-made 'harbor' can still be seen.
In addition to the troops who waded ashore, many paras and glider borne troops were dropped behind German lines to create chaos and interfere with enemy reinforcements reaching the front. These were intended to cooperate with the French resistance, and sometimes succeeded.
Airborne troops took heavy casualties as it was not possible to drop tanks to fight beside them. Those wading ashore were also badly mauled. We owe them all a great debt as their success shortened the war a lot and, indirectly, kept Western Europe from becoming Communist.
Getting Gloomy
Rod Dreher, of Benedict Option fame, has taken up the task of describing the decline of Western society; he’s become an op-ed version of Edward Gibbons. Dreher does a great job, if you can handle the depression that follows reading one of his well-crafted columns, like this from The American Conservative.
In it he describes three families despairing of modern conditions and moving to what they hope are safer precincts. One intends to leave the “good” section of Washington, DC, but hasn’t decided where to go. Another, who learned Magyar as a child, has moved to Hungary. And a third was a med school prof who with his family, relocated to private practice in small town Wyoming. All seem happy with their decisions.
Apropos of this sentiment, join me for a rereading of parts of W.B. Yeats’ poem, The Second Coming.
When Louis XVI prophetically declaimed, “Apres moi le deluge,” his foresight wasn’t bad. Don’t you suppose President Trump has (or should have) those same feelings?
In it he describes three families despairing of modern conditions and moving to what they hope are safer precincts. One intends to leave the “good” section of Washington, DC, but hasn’t decided where to go. Another, who learned Magyar as a child, has moved to Hungary. And a third was a med school prof who with his family, relocated to private practice in small town Wyoming. All seem happy with their decisions.
Apropos of this sentiment, join me for a rereading of parts of W.B. Yeats’ poem, The Second Coming.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;And Yeats concludes apocalyptically :
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Yeats wasn’t optimistic, Dreher isn’t either. I’m only slightly optimistic in the short-to-medium run (a few years), beyond that all I see is societal dysfunction and decay.
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
When Louis XVI prophetically declaimed, “Apres moi le deluge,” his foresight wasn’t bad. Don’t you suppose President Trump has (or should have) those same feelings?
Snark City
I haven’t reminded you recently to check out Saturday morning joy: Steven Hayward’s The Week in Pictures at Power Line.
It is particularly fine this week, many bitterly funny cartoons and snarkily captioned photos. And there are as many good ones in the comments as in Hayward’s compilation, don’t miss these.
It is particularly fine this week, many bitterly funny cartoons and snarkily captioned photos. And there are as many good ones in the comments as in Hayward’s compilation, don’t miss these.
Friday, June 5, 2020
No Shame
MSNBC just hired disgraced former FBI attorney Lisa Page as a National Security and Legal Affairs on-air analyst. It is widely agreed MSNBC has no shame.
Their morning show hosts should have fun asking her about what's involved in conducting an affair at the FBI; what the rules are and how you circumvent them. Their political analysts can celebrate her decision to conduct a political witch-hunt while on the Federal payroll.
People on the right are calling the network 'MSDNC' for its unwavering leftward slant and Trump hatred, the DNC standing for Democratic National Committee. They've earned the nickname.
Their morning show hosts should have fun asking her about what's involved in conducting an affair at the FBI; what the rules are and how you circumvent them. Their political analysts can celebrate her decision to conduct a political witch-hunt while on the Federal payroll.
People on the right are calling the network 'MSDNC' for its unwavering leftward slant and Trump hatred, the DNC standing for Democratic National Committee. They've earned the nickname.
Virtue Signaling
Reacting to the hypocrisy of many in positions of authority and influence, Instapundit observes wisely concerning virtue signaling.
So many of our institutions, from the New York Times to NYC government to higher education and even sports, are failing: The people running them care more about mugging for their peers than about the welfare of the institutions they are entrusted. That’s a species of corruption, and a highly destructive one.Amen, and it is far advanced.
A Dim Lightbulb
I just had one of those "Why did it take me so long to think of it?" moments. My 'great' insight this: it literally didn't matter which candidate won the presidency in 2012, Mitt Romney would have been as lame a president as Obama continued to be, and that was pathetic.
Hindsight is always 20-20. I suppose him being Governor of bright blue Massachusetts should have been a clue to his RINOness.
The saving grace of Obama's reelection is that the Republican Party doesn't have to shoulder the blame for a Romney presidency. Bush II is enough of an albatross.
Hindsight is always 20-20. I suppose him being Governor of bright blue Massachusetts should have been a clue to his RINOness.
The saving grace of Obama's reelection is that the Republican Party doesn't have to shoulder the blame for a Romney presidency. Bush II is enough of an albatross.
Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Washington Times reports the following Biden quote from the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee's appearance on a radio show:
Then I’d add Mrs. Clinton and her serially unfaithful husband Bill, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, both low-life, lying snakes, and virtually every Democrat officeholder and wannabe (including Joe himself) down to the city council level. How are we doing so far?
Then I’d add all the professional athletes who are wealthy but whine about how badly the country treats them, everybody with a felony conviction, the urban looters, most people in show business, the media, and the arts establishment. Plus 90% of academics, the snowflakes they teach, and all Karens (except my niece Karen, who’s nice). Are we getting close to 10% yet?
I have to confess I haven’t run the totals so ol’ Joe may exaggerate a tad but he’s basically correct, there are quite a few “not very good people.” Since he is part of the problem, I’m surprised he’d call attention to the fact. Perhaps like fish unaware of water, the old hair-sniffer doesn’t get that he’s describing himself.
There are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people.Putting aside the similarity to Hillary’s “basket of deplorables,” let’s agree with Joe Biden and identify some of those “not very good people.” I’d begin with his son Hunter, a druggie, father of a stripper’s illegitimate child, failed Navy officer, and exploiter of the family political connections to the tune of $50,000 per month.
Then I’d add Mrs. Clinton and her serially unfaithful husband Bill, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, both low-life, lying snakes, and virtually every Democrat officeholder and wannabe (including Joe himself) down to the city council level. How are we doing so far?
Then I’d add all the professional athletes who are wealthy but whine about how badly the country treats them, everybody with a felony conviction, the urban looters, most people in show business, the media, and the arts establishment. Plus 90% of academics, the snowflakes they teach, and all Karens (except my niece Karen, who’s nice). Are we getting close to 10% yet?
I have to confess I haven’t run the totals so ol’ Joe may exaggerate a tad but he’s basically correct, there are quite a few “not very good people.” Since he is part of the problem, I’m surprised he’d call attention to the fact. Perhaps like fish unaware of water, the old hair-sniffer doesn’t get that he’s describing himself.
Good News
NBC News, no friend of the President, reports employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The U.S. economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 percent. That’s down from 14.7 percent in April, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Considering the impact of the corona virus shutdowns, that is excellent news indeed. CNBC adds:
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting payrolls to drop by 8.33 million and the unemployment rate to rise to 19.5% from April’s 14.7%. If Wall Street expectations had been accurate, it would have been the worst figure since the Great Depression.Let’s hope these numbers hold up, and the trend continues in June.
As it turned out, May’s numbers showed the U.S. may well be on the road to recovery after its fastest plunge in history.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Watch Joe Screw Up
Gateway Pundit has video (scroll down) of Joe Biden repeating himself over and over. He's saying (reading, actually) something about the act of protesting overshadowing the reason for the protest. He reads it once, a second time, and then a third time, each time very slightly different.
The program hosts with whom he was speaking were African Americans. My first thought was he was talking down to them, as though he believed they hadn't understood.
My second, and I believe accurate, thought was that he repeated it because he was trying to understand what someone else had written for him to say about the protests. I'm not certain he ever "got it."
His writers need to follow the KISS principle: "keep it simple, stupid." Joe isn't real quick these days. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.
The program hosts with whom he was speaking were African Americans. My first thought was he was talking down to them, as though he believed they hadn't understood.
My second, and I believe accurate, thought was that he repeated it because he was trying to understand what someone else had written for him to say about the protests. I'm not certain he ever "got it."
His writers need to follow the KISS principle: "keep it simple, stupid." Joe isn't real quick these days. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.
A Prediction
Defense Secretary Mark Esper disagreed with his boss, President Trump, about whether the riot conditions justified deploying troops, as Sen. Cotton recommended. Trump said "yes" while Esper said "no."
Asked if Esper still had the President's confidence, Press Secretary McEnany replied something like "he is still the Secretary." I'll make a prediction.
If Trump is reelected in November, Esper will be "exploring other career options and spending more time with his family" shortly thereafter. In other words, he will be out of the job within the year, regardless of who wins in November. I wonder if he understands this?
A real Machiavellian would say Esper believes Trump will lose big in November and is positioning himself to benefit in his next job search from having had a public rift with Trump. It's a scenario that would play on K Street.
Asked if Esper still had the President's confidence, Press Secretary McEnany replied something like "he is still the Secretary." I'll make a prediction.
If Trump is reelected in November, Esper will be "exploring other career options and spending more time with his family" shortly thereafter. In other words, he will be out of the job within the year, regardless of who wins in November. I wonder if he understands this?
A real Machiavellian would say Esper believes Trump will lose big in November and is positioning himself to benefit in his next job search from having had a public rift with Trump. It's a scenario that would play on K Street.
Super Snark
Here is some super snark from a conservative icon, the late William F. Buckley, posted at Instapundit by Ed Driscoll.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.How one wishes this wasn't so true. Buckley died 12 years ago, when few were talking about microaggressions, but he definitely had the snowflakes' number.
Weird (But Good) Pharmacological Science
The Times (U.K.) reports the development of a new antibiotic that kills so-called superbugs, including gram-negative bacteria normally resistant to antibiotics.
Researchers from Princeton University in the US said that the new compounds, which are being called irresistins, act like a “poison arrow”. They pierce the outer wall of the bacteria and destroy a substance that lies inside called folate, an essential building block of the microbe’s genetic material.The website msn.com has more on irresistins, including that the original research was published in the technical journal Cell. Hat tip to John Hinderaker at Power Line for the link. As John notes and I concur, this may well be the most important news you will have read this year.
In the laboratory they killed off a strain of gonorrhoea resistant to all other antibiotics. They were also effective against gram-negative bacteria, which have an outer layer that shrugs off most antibiotics. No new classes of gram-negative-killing drugs have come to the market in nearly three decades.
Son of Weird Pharmacological Science
Earlier today we wrote in Weird Pharmacological Science about alleged problems with research concerning the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine. The news these days moves at warp speed, I now write to report The Lancet, Britain's lead medical journal, has withdrawn the article at the request of three of its four authors. Just The News has the story.
The three report they attempted to have an independent audit done of the data set. Surgisphere which had 'collected' or perhaps faked the data would not cooperate. The result: they bailed. The Lancet really had no choice but to withdraw the article which, one suspects, did much damage to science and may have indirectly led to hundreds of deaths.
The three report they attempted to have an independent audit done of the data set. Surgisphere which had 'collected' or perhaps faked the data would not cooperate. The result: they bailed. The Lancet really had no choice but to withdraw the article which, one suspects, did much damage to science and may have indirectly led to hundreds of deaths.
The Enthusiasm Gap
Scott Rasmussen does polling for Just The News and he finds a real difference in how Democrats and Republicans view their likely presidential nominee.
Biden is as bland as dry toast w/o butter, jam or PB. He's the ideal candidate for those who want to spend the next four years unaware of their president.
I suspect some of those reporting "other" or "unsure" are actually "shy Trump voters." A hat tip to the U.K.'s Tory party which discovered the "shy" voter who plans to go Tory but doesn't want to admit it. Trump appeared to have those in 2016, as noted below.
Likely Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden faces a daunting enthusiasm gap compared to President Trump, according to the latest Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen.Rasmussen also found that registered voters preferred Biden (46%) to Trump (39%) with the other 15% unsure or favoring a third party candidate. The bad news is Trump will need the enthusiasm his folks bring to voting to win in November. The good news is that they are very enthused. Even more good news, Democrats have supermajorities in a few states (e.g., NY, CA, MA), which dilutes their impact on the electoral college.
"Wow! 76% of Trump voters are enthusiastic about their candidate compared to just 49% of Biden voters," Rasmussen exclaimed.
"For the Democrat, nearly as many — 41% — see him as the lesser of two evils," the pollster reports.
Biden is as bland as dry toast w/o butter, jam or PB. He's the ideal candidate for those who want to spend the next four years unaware of their president.
I suspect some of those reporting "other" or "unsure" are actually "shy Trump voters." A hat tip to the U.K.'s Tory party which discovered the "shy" voter who plans to go Tory but doesn't want to admit it. Trump appeared to have those in 2016, as noted below.
Is There Still a Silent Majority?
A writer for Politico talks to Democrat operatives who, if you read carefully, make the point they're worried about urban unrest activating Trump voters to turn out and reelect him. They are of course very careful not to criticize the urban unrest as those creating the chaos are Democrats.
These pols do seem to understand that former and potential Trump voters are unsympathetic to rioters and looters, and to Democrats who snuggle up to rioters and looters. The unrest, coming just 5 months before the election, and after the corona virus is sorta over, is well positioned to motivate Trump voters to use his reelection to send a message to those causing the trouble.
Urban unrest has the added advantage of taking voter minds off the economic slow-down caused by the virus and the shut-down that it occasioned. How long that distraction will last is unclear, as is the duration of "the troubles."
As to the question in the title, if not a silent majority, a silent electoral college majority existed in 2016. Why not in 2020? We all remember how surprised and pleased we were when Trump won after the polls said he'd lose.
These pols do seem to understand that former and potential Trump voters are unsympathetic to rioters and looters, and to Democrats who snuggle up to rioters and looters. The unrest, coming just 5 months before the election, and after the corona virus is sorta over, is well positioned to motivate Trump voters to use his reelection to send a message to those causing the trouble.
Urban unrest has the added advantage of taking voter minds off the economic slow-down caused by the virus and the shut-down that it occasioned. How long that distraction will last is unclear, as is the duration of "the troubles."
As to the question in the title, if not a silent majority, a silent electoral college majority existed in 2016. Why not in 2020? We all remember how surprised and pleased we were when Trump won after the polls said he'd lose.
The Mattis Mess
Many outlets are reporting former Defense Secretary Mattis has criticized the President for failing “to try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try.” I get that Mattis didn’t like being fired, but this is a cheap shot even for a disgruntled former employee.
President Trump was doing a great job of uniting the American people prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Unemployment was at all-time lows, especially minority employment.
The economy was booming, troops were coming home from overseas, illegal immigration was down, and nobody much was shooting at us. Much of that is still true.
Trump is no more responsible for the George Floyd death in Minneapolis than Obama was responsible for the Freddy Gray death in Baltimore, or for the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. Ditto for Lyndon Johnson and the Detroit riots.
And Trump’s been no more successful than was Obama or Johnson in “uniting the American people” and ending the riots. African-American dissatisfaction with white society has been brewing for over 200 years and isn’t going away any time soon.
Gen. Mattis needs to get over being fired. Cabinet Secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president, and this president is easily displeased as demonstrated on his ‘reality’ TV show and by the list of his former executive branch appointees.
Mattis and Rex Tillerson thought incorrectly it wouldn’t happen to them. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was another ex-Defense Secretary soon. The incumbent - Esper - just disagreed with his boss.
President Trump was doing a great job of uniting the American people prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Unemployment was at all-time lows, especially minority employment.
The economy was booming, troops were coming home from overseas, illegal immigration was down, and nobody much was shooting at us. Much of that is still true.
Trump is no more responsible for the George Floyd death in Minneapolis than Obama was responsible for the Freddy Gray death in Baltimore, or for the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. Ditto for Lyndon Johnson and the Detroit riots.
And Trump’s been no more successful than was Obama or Johnson in “uniting the American people” and ending the riots. African-American dissatisfaction with white society has been brewing for over 200 years and isn’t going away any time soon.
Gen. Mattis needs to get over being fired. Cabinet Secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president, and this president is easily displeased as demonstrated on his ‘reality’ TV show and by the list of his former executive branch appointees.
Mattis and Rex Tillerson thought incorrectly it wouldn’t happen to them. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was another ex-Defense Secretary soon. The incumbent - Esper - just disagreed with his boss.
Weird Pharmacological Science
Science magazine is a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It writes about the controversies concerning the papers which stopped many of the studies of the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19.
The papers, in The Lancet and elsewhere, were based on the data of a “mysterious company” Surgisphere with somewhere between 5-11 employees. About their data set many scientific questions have been asked, and many suspicions aired.
Complicating the entire issue is the President’s boosterism for hydroxychloroquine and the knee-jerk opposition to the drug by those who find his flamboyant style distasteful. I expect that if Trump expressed a liking for beautiful sunsets, that crowd would resolutely stay indoors with the drapes pulled, bewailing sunsets’ obviousness and lack of subtlety.
We live in very strange times, do we not? Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.
The papers, in The Lancet and elsewhere, were based on the data of a “mysterious company” Surgisphere with somewhere between 5-11 employees. About their data set many scientific questions have been asked, and many suspicions aired.
Complicating the entire issue is the President’s boosterism for hydroxychloroquine and the knee-jerk opposition to the drug by those who find his flamboyant style distasteful. I expect that if Trump expressed a liking for beautiful sunsets, that crowd would resolutely stay indoors with the drapes pulled, bewailing sunsets’ obviousness and lack of subtlety.
We live in very strange times, do we not? Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.
More on Policing
Yesterday we wrote about “defunding police” and what might happen if we were ever dumb enough to do so. Today Thomas Lifson at American Thinker reminds us that we have a real-life example of this which happened in Boston in 1919 when the police went on strike in attempt to form a union.
Looting broke out almost immediately and continued for 9 days until then-Governor Calvin Coolidge could form a militia and take control of the city. This he did, and built a national reputation as a tough guy which eventually helped him become President.
Lifson reminds us of a lesser, but more recent, example when the Baltimore police basically left black districts alone following the riots over the Freddy Grey death in police custody. He quotes the following from The New York Times Magazine:
The truly very hard issue is that the line between quelling obstreperous citizens causing unlawful trouble on the one hand and bullying on the other is a fine one. It is made more difficult by hostile attitudes toward policing of any sort in certain poor districts where some types of law breaking - especially theft, selling drugs, and prostitution - are among the few ways people are willing (or able, if they have priors) to make a living.
Imagine how difficult it is to require police not to reciprocate hostile attitudes directed at them by, for example, African-Americans. Answering hate with love, or at least forbearance, is saintly, and saints are uncommon, certainly too rare to staff a police force. Thus, we are likely to struggle with this issue for the indefinite future.
The “defund police” advocates are correct about one thing, tensions between poor minorities and the police cannot be “solved” or made to disappear by “improving” the police. The problems exist because of ‘issues’ on both sides and nobody is proposing the hostile citizens change in any way.
Looting broke out almost immediately and continued for 9 days until then-Governor Calvin Coolidge could form a militia and take control of the city. This he did, and built a national reputation as a tough guy which eventually helped him become President.
Lifson reminds us of a lesser, but more recent, example when the Baltimore police basically left black districts alone following the riots over the Freddy Grey death in police custody. He quotes the following from The New York Times Magazine:
In the years that followed, Baltimore, by most standards, became a worse place. In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous.Do police need to be held to higher standards than were exhibited recently by the four in Minneapolis? Certainly. Do police need to be abolished? Certainly not.
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The truly very hard issue is that the line between quelling obstreperous citizens causing unlawful trouble on the one hand and bullying on the other is a fine one. It is made more difficult by hostile attitudes toward policing of any sort in certain poor districts where some types of law breaking - especially theft, selling drugs, and prostitution - are among the few ways people are willing (or able, if they have priors) to make a living.
Imagine how difficult it is to require police not to reciprocate hostile attitudes directed at them by, for example, African-Americans. Answering hate with love, or at least forbearance, is saintly, and saints are uncommon, certainly too rare to staff a police force. Thus, we are likely to struggle with this issue for the indefinite future.
The “defund police” advocates are correct about one thing, tensions between poor minorities and the police cannot be “solved” or made to disappear by “improving” the police. The problems exist because of ‘issues’ on both sides and nobody is proposing the hostile citizens change in any way.
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