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#De Blasio’s Geneva Convention ‘violation’ and other commentary

De Blasio’s Geneva Convention ‘violation’ and other commentary

June 4, 2020 | 6:14pm | Updated June 4, 2020 | 6:30pm

Iconoclast: De Blasio’s Geneva Convention ‘Violation’

Mayor Bill de Blasio performed a valuable service by touting John Lennon’s “Imagine” amid these “horrifying and divisive” times, Matthew Walther at The Week sarcastically suggests — because he reminded us that it’s “the worst song ever recorded.” Indeed, its lyrics “insult the intelligence with such ferocity” that singing it likely “violates the Geneva Convention” — describing “nonsensical” goals but offering no clue how to achieve them, and all leading to a “tomorrow” that “no one would want to live in” anyway. “A world in which nothing is worth dying for is one in which exactly zero of the things from which we derive meaning and pleasure could exist,” notes Walther. It’s an “actual vision of hell.” No, the idea that the song is an “answer” to police brutality, looting and economic depression isn’t “quixotic; it’s insulting.”

Culture beat: The Nike Revolution

The rioters’ “enablers” include not just pundits, politicians and professors “but also corporate America,” argues Daniel McCarthy in Spectator USA. “Take Nike. You might think the sneaker company would be upset about having its stores ransacked.” Nope. That its stores have been looted “proves it’s the footwear brand of the revolution,” with looters “a walking advertisement.” Others will now “buy Nikes so they can be part of the revolution, too.” The company needn’t worry “the revolution is going to expropriate the sneaker factories — those have already been profitably relocated to countries under communist rule. Woke capitalism and the communism that employs the most brutal policing imaginable against the likes of Uighurs and Tibetans make perfect allies.” With its pro-protest ads, Nike and the rest of corporate America want you to know they totally reject racism. “Just not the Chinese variety.”

Campaign journal: 1968’s Lesson for Dems

The “2020 presidential campaign is shaping up to be eerily similar to the 1968 campaign,” Doug Schoen posits at Fox News. In 1968, Democrats embraced a “far-left” platform to appease protesters participating in “riots across the country” — which only resulted in Republican Richard Nixon’s “49-state landslide” on a “promise to restore ‘law and order.’ ” In 2020, we’re again seeing “widespread civil unrest and violence” and a president calling for “law and order.” If Democrats want to win in November, they can’t repeat their 1968 mistake: Instead, they should “emphasize unity” and start criticizing “violence and civil disobedience, as well as looting.” If Dems “move too far left while allowing riots and violence to define their party,” warns Schoen, “Trump and the Republicans will, like Nixon, emerge victorious.”

Sports desk: Drew Brees Did Nothing Wrong

On Wednesday, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees told Yahoo Finance he would not join Colin Kaepernick in “taking a knee during the national anthem” to protest “police racism” — an answer, The Washington Examiner’s Quin Hillyer sighs, that immediately sparked outrage from the “social-media mobs.” Yet Brees gave a “respectful, gracious and dignified” response: While he understood the kneelers’ concerns, he explained why he’d “never agree with anyone disrespecting the flag,” “praised the civil-rights movement” and “urged unity.” If the “thought police” can blast Brees for urging Kaepernick to pick a better time to protest than “during the national anthem,” warns Hillyer, they’re “well on their way to trampling” American’s “liberty of conscience.”

Conservative: Dems ‘Mugged by Reality’

President Trump’s “ ‘offer’ of military assistance to riot-torn American cities” exposed an “inconvenient truth,” observes The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass: “Liberal Democratic governors and mayors have been mugged by reality.” Early on, we saw “legitimately angry but peaceful protests” following George Floyd’s death, but “anarchists and gangs of urban looters” quickly hijacked the protests. Yet “Democratic governors and mayors did little if anything to stop the violence,” thinking they could “use and tame” the protesters. That “only encouraged the criminals” — prompting Trump’s offer. But that “shook” Gov. Andrew Cuomo enough for him to “begin devouring” Mayor Bill de Blasio. Because establishment Dems turned left in “the hopes of herding or co-opting” radicals, they’re now “caught between their hard-left political base and the growing disillusionment of voters.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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