BILL DE BLASIO’s TERM CAN’T END FAST ENOUGH:

● Shot: Why the Right Foresaw the Statues Coming Down.

When Donald Trump wondered whether it would be ‘George Washington next week’ and ‘Thomas Jefferson the week after,’ he was treated to haughty and dismissive dispatches in the mainstream press explaining why these Founders were more than just their proximity to slavery. These were valuable missives, but Trump wasn’t the right audience. They should have been directed at the activists who have taken their campus-based maximalism with them into the workforce. The failure on the part of polite liberal opinion makers to anticipate this attack on America’s foundations is a failure of imagination and an act of hubris. They assumed they spoke for the mob when it was the mob that spoke for them.

—Noah Rothman, Commentary, June 19, 2020.

● Chaser: Mayor de Blasio Calls For Removal Of Thomas Jefferson Statue.

—Outkick the Coverage, yesterday.

Flashback: Bill De Blasio and the Decline of New York City.