FAKE HATE CRIMES:
Shot:
The Left, for the moment, cannot seriously compete in the theater of ideas. So rather than play the ball, it’s play the man. Socialism failed, but there is some juice to be had from convincing people who are not especially intellectually engaged and who are led by their emotions more than by their intellect — which is to say, most people — that the people pushing ideas contrary to yours are racists and anti-Semites, that they hate women and homosexuals and Muslims and foreigners, that they could not possibly be correct on the policy questions, because they are moral monsters. This is the ad hominem fallacy elevated, if not quite to a creed, then to a general conception of politics. Hence the hoaxes and lies and nonsense.
Phony hate crimes. Phony hate.
—“Bogus Hate Crimes: Trump, Conservatives Blamed by Clueless Leftists,” Kevin D. Williamson, NRO, today.
Chaser: “Headstones toppled at Brooklyn Jewish cemetery were from neglect not vandalism, NYPD says.”
—Jewish Telegraphic Agency, today.