{"id":58526,"date":"2020-09-02T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-riot-test-democrats-need-to-face-the-enemy-to-their-left\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:10:00","slug":"the-riot-test-democrats-need-to-face-the-enemy-to-their-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-riot-test-democrats-need-to-face-the-enemy-to-their-left\/","title":{"rendered":"#The riot test: Democrats need to face the enemy to their left"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The riot test: Democrats need to face the enemy to their left<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 1, 2020 |<\/span> 8:10pm <\/p>\n

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\n Dems can\u2019t afford to kowtow to the hard left<\/p>\n

Last week, a mob of white protesters swarmed a white woman eating dinner in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Video of the bullies demanding that patrons raise their fists in solidarity with the movement went viral.<\/p>\n

Pro-Trump and right-wing media<\/a> personalities were quick to \u00adinsist this verbal assault was emblematic of the entire Democratic Party and the broader American left. Never mind that the victim, Lauren Victor, was a fellow progressive who told a Washington Post reporter, \u201cI\u2019m very much with them. I\u2019ve been marching with them for weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the funny things about this decidedly unfunny event is that it would have been almost impossible for this roving rhetorical goon squad to find the kind of victims they surely wanted. Adams Morgan is an especially liberal neighborhood in a very liberal city. Sure, there are some conservatives there \u2014 I lived in Adams Morgan for more than a decade \u2014 but picking on random white people in Adams Morgan in the hope of finding MAGA types is like scouring Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side for taxidermists. It\u2019s theoretically possible to find one, but you\u2019ll have your work cut out.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Democrats would be well-advised to draw inspiration from Victor\u2019s refusal to be bullied by a mob, even one she sympathizes with, because she is surely more representative of voters than the mob accosting her is.<\/p>\n

American liberalism\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel has long been a reluctance, sometimes a flat-out inability, to criticize radicals to its left. In the 1960s, leading Democrats kowtowed to extremists out of what historian Fred Siegel called a \u201criot ideology,\u201d and it cost the party dearly.<\/p>\n

There have been exceptions. Americans for Democratic \u00adAction arguably saved the Democratic Party from its left-most wing led by the \u201cuseful idiot\u201d Henry Wallace, FDR\u2019s former vice president. Bill Clinton broke the GOP\u2019s monopoly on the presidency by deliberately picking fights with the left to attract more moderate voters. Clinton\u2019s tactics were arguably more cynical than idealistic \u2014 he took time off from the campaign trail to oversee the execution of a \u00adseverely brain-damaged black man. But say what you will about his \u201ctriangulation,\u201d it worked.<\/p>\n

American politics has become a contest between two competing caricatures of reality. The primary driver of this dynamic has been the media\u2019s \u2014 particularly cable news<\/a>\u2019 \u2014 \u00adaddiction to narrative journalism combined with the pernicious influence of social media. Twitter and Facebook make it all too easy to shine a spotlight on outlier events and present them as central to our lives. The focus on the ludicrous \u201cautonomous zone\u201d in Seattle earlier this summer let the right claim the whole city was like a \u201cMad Max\u201d movie.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the statistically rare (I\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s true) examples of outrageously bad behavior by some cops captured on video give many on the left permission to push a narrative of wholesale racial oppression by police.<\/p>\n

Social media are like the wall in Plato\u2019s Cave. Selective facts cast shadows we mistake for reality. If you take all your cues about what\u2019s happ<\/a>ening in America from partisan Twitter, as so many journalists do, you\u2019d be a fool not to buy a gun and prepare for the coming apocalyptic helter-skelter.<\/p>\n

The problem is intensified by the tendency of the hyper-politically engaged left and right to listen only to people in their own echo chamber and to mistake Twitter outrage for sentiment on the ground. So despite the fact that a majority of black and Latino people want the same amount or more police in their communities, we spent weeks listening to \u201cexperts\u201d claim that \u201cabolish the police\u201d is a reasonable, mainstream position.<\/p>\n

(Here\u2019s an illustrative heuristic: If you hear politicians or journalists using the label \u201cLatinx\u201d to describe Latinos, you\u2019re listening to someone in a bubble. According to recent Pew polling, only about 25 percent of Latinos know the term, and only about 3 percent actually use it.)<\/p>\n

Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination largely because most of his competitors talked as if primary voters were indistinguishable from the very online left-wing activists and journalists who dominate MSNBC and CNN.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Biden has unequivocally condemned rioting, vigilantism and street violence. But he took too much time to do it not because he doesn\u2019t believe what he said, but because the campaign let the fringe define the center of the party. Condemning violence \u2014 by rioters and vigilantes alike \u2014 is a no-brainer; it\u2019s a pre-partisan patriotic requirement of political leadership.<\/p>\n

Hesitation to do so is not merely shameful, it\u2019s political malpractice, because most voters expect it, and even the appearance of reluctance feeds precisely the narrative that could cost Biden the election.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @JonahDispatch<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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