{"id":8052,"date":"2020-06-15T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-vs-biden-and-our-yearning-for-normalcy\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:37:00","slug":"trump-vs-biden-and-our-yearning-for-normalcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-vs-biden-and-our-yearning-for-normalcy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump vs. Biden and our yearning for \u2018normalcy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump vs. Biden and our yearning for \u2018normalcy\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 14, 2020 |<\/span> 8:37pm <\/p>\n

\n The killing of George Floyd rightly horrified Americans. The \u00adensuing protests united us around police accountability. But no sooner had people lined up to agree with the premise that bad police officers should be punished, and racism within organizations rooted out, than the movement put forth a demand to defund the police.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s utterly bonkers.<\/p>\n

Anyone who imagines \u201cdefund the police\u201d doesn\u2019t actually mean defund the police should watch the viral video featuring Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey confronted on the issue by protest leaders. Frey had been at all the protests, had sobbed at Floyd\u2019s coffin, held every correct progressive opinion \u2014 until activists asked him if he would agree to defund police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want no police,\u201d an \u00adactivist leader clarified for Frey. When Frey couldn\u2019t agree, he was booted from the protests, as protesters hurled invective at him.<\/p>\n

The trouble: Police forces \u00adremain broadly popular. Over 50 percent of Americans consistently say they have \u201ca great deal\u201d or \u201cquite a lot\u201d of confidence in police, with another 30 percent saying they have \u201csome\u201d confidence. It isn\u2019t just white people, either. Polls have found that as many as two-thirds of African Americans have confidence in the police; a HuffPost\/YouGov poll last week found that 49 percent of black people oppose defunding the police.<\/p>\n

Yet wokesters are pressuring \u00admedia<\/a> companies to ditch TV cop shows, including \u201cCops\u201d and \u201cLive PD,\u201d in what Commentary\u2019s Noah Rothman has correctly identified as a \u201cmoral panic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonkers, as I say.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, hard-left activists have seized several blocks of Seattle to form an \u201cautonomous zone,\u201d a cop-free commune that includes an abandoned police precinct. \u201cResidents\u201d claim the territory isn\u2019t part of the United States.<\/p>\n

Jenny Durkan, the white mayor, isn\u2019t too worried about the lawlessness. Asked on CNN last week how long she would let it go on, she \u00adreplied: \u201cI don\u2019t know, we could have a summer of love.\u201d It\u2019s easy to imagine Durkan reacting very differently if a right-wing group seized public space and \u201cseceded\u201d from the republic.<\/p>\n

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, an African-American woman, is sounding the alarm about what\u2019s going on in the autonomous zone, saying police aren\u2019t able to respond to 911 calls about \u201crapes, robberies and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we\u2019re not able to get to.\u201d<\/p>\n

After months under lockdown, scared for our lives, Americans are tired. We were united in our outrage over the death of Floyd. But it\u2019s downright scary to watch liberal elected officials respond to the very real problem of police brutality by giving license to lawlessness and acquiescing to \u00adbizarre \u00addemands like \u201cdefund the police.\u201d Police officers are being shot at regularly, and it barely makes the news<\/a>. We\u2019ve \u00addecided to punish every officer in the country for the actions of a handful in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Like much else over the last few months, it makes no sense.<\/p>\n

We are aching for normal, whatever that means anymore. I suppose the 2020 election will come down to which candidate will \u00adrestore a sense of normalcy. Joe Biden\u2019s entire candidacy has been premised on \u201cmaking America 2015 again,\u201d as the satirist Marty Beckerman has put it. But can a Biden \u00adbeholden to an ever-more-bonkers left deliver normalcy?<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s official slogan is \u201cKeep America Great.\u201d Yet his unofficial one, seen on signs in some states, is: \u201cTrump 2020: No More Bulls\u200a-\u200a-\u200at.\u201d<\/p>\n

We know what Biden means by normalcy: no late-night presidential tweet threats or fights picked with members of the media or his own party. But we also intrinsically understand what the Trump campaign might mean with its call to resist bulls\u200a-\u200a-\u200at. The Seattle comrades forming an \u201cautonomous\u201d zone, and the Minneapolis ones calling for disbanding the police, fit the bill perfectly.<\/p>\n

We shall see which idea of normal will win come November.<\/p>\n

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

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