Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden could make a number of arguments against the re-election of President Donald Trump in November, but blaming him for violence in American cities this summer – as he did Monday – is not one of them.
Far be it for us to be giving a tip that would bring about the election of such a leftist administration, but that’s an issue that won’t gain traction from the voters the Democrat needs to win.
Don’t like Trump because of his infernal abrasiveness? That’s an issue. Don’t like the way he has handled the coronavirus pandemic? That’s an issue. Don’t like the constant turmoil that is the Trump administration? That’s an issue.
But the voters Biden needs to win know from whence the violence sprung. It was an outgrowth of the initial peaceful protests that followed the death of suspect George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25.
Although people on both sides of the political spectrum have decried excessive violence by police and sought changes in policies and procedures, it was largely those on the political left who protested. And a subset of those set fires. And looted. And defaced public property. And killed police and innocent people.