For weeks, supporters of the District of Columbia’s permissive criminal-code overhaul have betrayed the weakness of their position. Progressive political actors and commentators tried through frenetic movements and threats to convince federal elected officials to respect Washington, D.C.’s right to govern itself, even if its self-governance is self-destructive. They failed.
The bill’s proponents exhausted all the ordnance in their arsenal attempting to prevent Congress from overriding it. They mourned the attack on the principle of “home rule” in D.C. from its fair-weather supporters, and they savaged the president for sawing off the limb onto which they’d crawled. None of it worked. And so, with no other options, “restorative justice” reformers are now defaming anyone responsible for their humiliation as racists, or, at the very least, propagators of the practices that perpetuate systemic racial discrimination.
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