Mandela Barnes may become the foremost political victim of the Left’s post–George Floyd politics.
The progressive assumption in the aftermath of the killing of Floyd was that once-radical positions were going mainstream, and, given how every major institution in American life instantly began to mouth the shibboleths of Black Lives Matter, it wasn’t a crazy belief. But it underestimated the continued support for law enforcement, and what the reaction would be to riots, calls to cut the budgets of police departments, and a spike in violent crime.
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