The Cincinnati Cop-outs

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

The country is descending into a tribal morass of double standards and racial fixations. The

DEI industry, the Defund-the-Police madness, and the perpetual left-wing hunt for “white racism/white privilege/white rage”—from the prior Pentagon hierarchy to the lunatic fringe of Jasmine Crockett, Joy Reid, and Zohran Mamdani—have all legitimized double standards while lowering the bar of the once unacceptable. The ensuing signal is that “payback” violence is okay - as long as the victim is white and the assaulter is not.