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Given that the Kenosha riots are already over, can we recognize that the white male pundits screeching about urban disorder or whatever aren’t making a neutral case, but actually trying to assist Trump’s reelection campaign by building the narrative they think he needs?
There were three days of unrest in a small Wisconsin city, and the main effect of that unrest was a double murder by a Trump supporter. If your takeaway is “in recent weeks chaos has gripped America cities like it’s 1968,” you are creating a story, not observing one.
I don’t think the people doing this are even driven by a desire for Trump to win, even. They just intuitively want swings in the race - more interesting to write about - and a canvas on which to work out their pet obsessions with black protest and liberalism.
I’m an idiot, because I just now realized:
“Kenosha” is this year’s “e-mails”
“Kenosha” is this year’s “e-mails”
Seriously, it’s the exact same thing: pundits need a quick-and-easy way to “balance out” the horse race, so they’ve all glommed on to a random object that just so happens to represent, to them, some insecurities that they themselves, as white dudes, have with the Dem candidate
As I was saying: "Kenosha" is about setting up a horse-race narrative for election. The pundits wouldn& #39;t care if actual Kenosha sunk into Lake Michigan, any more than they care if there& #39;s any unrest in cities, or if all the protesters fall off the earth. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/politics/joe-biden-trump-conventions.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/2...
They didn& #39;t care about the substance of "the email scandal" either. They just wanted someone they could fill in the blank with: "Mr. Trump has been accused by his opponents of being unqualified and racially insensitive. At the same time, Mrs. Clinton has been accused of _____."
Now, they were feeling uncomfortable with the way the campaign had become all about Trump& #39;s failings. They wanted to be able to say "But Republicans argue that Democrats will contribute to _______."
So they picked "black urban unrest" because hey, that sounds scary to them.
So they picked "black urban unrest" because hey, that sounds scary to them.
