This is the legacy of Eric Holder. Of Ferguson. Of Baltimore. Of Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch vilifying the police and glorifying the mob.

This is the legacy of the national media, sensationalizing events absent fact checking and sober judgment.

“Pigs in blankets! Fry ‘em like bacon!” reported by the media with a newly woke deference, never delving into what this sentiment represented and the ambitions of those saying it.

“Hands up! Don’t shoot!” was urban legend and the media knew it; but they lent it credence anyway. Worse, they breathed life into it.

This is the legacy of Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ordering police to stand down while the mob torched the neighborhood CVS and police chief Anthony Batts sustained policy of retreat while the city burned.

This is the legacy of Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby exploiting the death of Freddie Gray by zealously overcharging six cops, and having all six cases tossed.

This is the legacy of Philadelphia prosecutor Larry Krasner’s brand of criminal justice reform, which is to essentially decriminalize crime.

This is the legacy of Chicago’s county prosecutor Kim Foxx abetting a politically charged hoax, wholly orchestrated to inflame racial tensions; to what end, one should ask.

This is the legacy of the Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowing a police station to be surrendered to the mob.

This is the legacy of Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan ceding municipal real estate to the mob.
This is the legacy of Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler siding with the mob and evicting federal law enforcement.

This is the legacy of Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot eschewing federal law enforcement assistance resulting in a wartime body count and the violent redistribution of private property to the mob.

This is the legacy of Mayor DeBlasio’s indifference when scofflaws poured water on NYPD officers in 2019. In 2020 it’s now gasoline and bricks.

This is the legacy of emptying jails and releasing without bail: the jackals now preying on a less protected public, left vulnerable by defunded and demoralized police.

This is the legacy of Barack Obama, built not on white guilt or white privilege, but on white apathy.

So when you look at Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York and all the rest, and witness the organized lawlessness, the feckless politicians, the servitude of the media and the hollow solidarity from Hollywood elites and major sports figures, to say you never saw this coming is to say you’ve never looked.