When demands for civil treatment by all police officers become deaths of police officers, we’re through the looking glass.
When a U.S. senator – Chris Murphy of Connecticut – deletes a tweet condemning looters, we are through the looking glass.
When an editor-at-large of a national news organization – CNN’s Chris Cillizza – thinks the president should not use the word “riot” to describe scenarios that have resulted in hundreds of arrests, hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage and dozens shot and police officers dead, well, sometimes you wonder if we’ll ever find our way back again.
The phrase “new normal” emerged because of the sweeping, life-changing measures we have taken to beat back the coronavirus. That fight continues and will for some time.
So does the fight for social justice. It’s a fight almost all of America supports.