Woke Racialism Is a Clear and Present Danger to the American System

The racial obsessions of the Left threaten long-standing Anglo-American legal norms.

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Signs at a protest against the Kyle Rittenhouse’s verdict in Chicago, Ill., November 20, 2021.

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If the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse was an affirmation of our system of justice, the reaction to the not-guilty verdicts in his case exposes an ongoing, foundational threat to the rule of law.

The progressive clerisy — and its fellow-travelers in the media — had no interest in the facts or the law. They demonstrated this with easily disproven false statements about the trial from beginning to end. The only thing they cared about was an outcome in keeping with their ideological presuppositions.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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