Silver Lining to George Floyd Rebellion

As COVID-19 spikes and the White House goes dark, consider this: This is just the beginning.

Civil unrest is our new normal. What happens when enhanced unemployment expires in July? What happens is a wave of evictions.

There is no indication that the federal government is able to provide leadership. States and municipalities will soon have to cut services and layoff workers. As we saw in post-Katrina New Orleans, police will simple vanish from their posts.

One silver lining to the George Floyd rebellion is that it has chased China-bashing from the front-pages of U.S. newspapers. It's hard to act as if you are a bulwark of civil liberties when the national guard is mustered and firing upon reporters:

In China, the state-run news media heavily featured reports about Mr. Floyd’s death and portrayed the protests as another sign of America’s decline. When a U.S. official on Saturday attacked the ruling Communist Party on Twitter for moving to impose national security legislation to quash dissent in Hong Kong, a spokeswoman for the Chinese government fired back with a popular refrain among protesters in the United States.

“‘I can’t breathe,’ ” the spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, wrote on Twitter.