Kylee Zempel of the Federalist explores the possible impact of one Wisconsin community on Democrats’ future electoral hopes.
It’s been one year since an immigrant watched every vehicle in his car dealership go up in flames, one year since Rode’s Camera Shop became a pile of ashes and the country woke up to learn the name Kyle Rittenhouse after the teen killed two people. A year since businesses frantically tacked “Black Lives Matter” signs onto their storefronts and families spraypainted “Please, kids above” onto boarded-up windows hoping the mob would pass over them — ominous symbols that still remain after a full trip around the sun.
One year ago, a town in southeast Wisconsin reaped the consequences of the left-ignited race war when onlookers imposed racist motives onto a police officer — who had acted within his professional duty to protect the lives of a mother and her children — and subsequently set a city ablaze. That one incident and the nights of violence that ensued would not only change the people of Kenosha; it would also change the politics.
It isn’t that riot violence is partisan, although the 2020 summer of rage was undoubtedly fueled by the reckless race-baiting of the left-wing ruling class and carried out by Marxist so-called “racial justice” revolutionaries. Rather, the infamous riots that ravaged Kenosha last summer are politically significant because they unearthed the incontrovertible difference between our red and blue political leaders on upholding the law.
“I think those individuals … in Kenosha recognize that President Trump supported enforcing the law and supported public safety,” Rep. Bryan Steil, the congressman representing Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District, which is home to Kenosha, told The Federalist. “And the Democrats were beholden to the far left, and in particular, those calling to defund the police and refusing to support the men and women of law enforcement.”
