Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

For a brief moment, I thought the coronavirus, mass unemployment, and looming budget cuts would reduce the nation's obsession with identity politics. But the lockdowns just ratcheted up the pressure, the Floyd killing lit the match, and it's identity politics 100x.

I believe that the riots would not be happening without the last two months of lockdown. The psychological pressure, especially in working-class communities, is intense. Millions of people out of work. The media driving mass fear and panic. The perfect conditions for violence.

Imagine: We have spent the last few weeks outraged at college kids going to the beach and "Karens" mask-scolding people at Whole Foods. Meanwhile, our poorest neighborhoods are devastated by unemployment, social breakdown, and now riots. The media is complicit in all of it.