Two really great things happened in America last week: Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for reelection and sweaty South Carolina dynasty lawyer Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder, both of which indicate this country isn’t yet ready to become a lawless war zone.
Lightfoot came in a distant third among her city’s voters, no doubt because they declared public safety as their top concern and Lightfoot had the honor of overseeing Chicago’s deadliest year in a quarter century. And a jury found Murdaugh guilty of killing his wife and young son, no doubt because he is a professed thief and the evidence pointed to no one else but him.
But, as always, never get too comfortable. Lightfoot still received nearly 20 percent of the vote and there exist some people who would have found a reason to acquit Murdaugh. Such a person to probably do both is The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo.
Manjoo is one of those people typically found in the Democratic Party and the national media, the type who can overcomplicate the simplest issue when it comes to policing and law enforcement. But the police force doesn’t exactly mirror the ethnic diversity of the community! But we need to reallocate funding for social services! But even though the evidence is pretty damning, it doesn’t answer all my questions!
It’s all an excuse to make law and order seem like an obscure concept that requires less policing of criminals and more time to think, more
