Have we replaced government “by the people” with rule by the mob?
It certainly feels that way. A potentially healthy debate over policing, race and history has degenerated into general lawlessness, as hordes of lawbreakers have swarmed and destroyed statues in our biggest cities from coast to coast.
And these mobs have hardly been discriminating.
They’ve targeted Christopher Columbus, Founding Fathers, Confederate generals, Union generals, abolitionists, black Civil War units, priests and even a novelist. They’ve attacked people of a multitude of creeds, races and religions: white, Black and Hispanic; Catholic, Protestant and Hindu.
All in the name of purging, in the words of many activists, “systematic racism,” and various other sins inherent in our country’s past, present and future.