Two days of protests and you start seeing liberals talking like Edmund Burke. A week of protesting and they are sounding like Joseph de Maistre.
The most visible example would be de Blasio, a leading progressive not too long ago.
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Yeah—that’s a pathetic, in some senses tragic case. And its linked to his obeisance to the cops. You’re seeing that with a lot of urban, Democratic pols—the power relationship is breaking them in two. But less so from writers/thinkers or have I missed those examples?
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Well, in terms of writers/thinkers, there's some subtweets and esoteric writing going around that I read as signs of discomfort. Lee Fang of The Intercept is an explicit example.
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de Blasio had surrendered to the police well before these demonstrations; now it is just out there for everyone to see. For someone who ran against 'stop and frisk,' it is pathetic.
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