Kyle Rittenhouse Walks. Justice Is Served

I have been traveling all day, and am only just now able to post something about the Rittenhouse verdict. I’m going to keep it short, because I’m really tired, and besides, you who have been online or watching TV have probably had as much of the commentary as you can stand. I do want to post this so you can discuss it in the comments.

Here is the video of the young man receiving the verdict:

I’m grateful that the jury returned this verdict, and that kid’s nightmare can begin to end. I’ve been catching up on the media reactions today, and though I am not surprised by the malicious insanity on the Left, I am nonetheless more convinced than ever that the media and Democratic Party people are going to end up stoking racial violence. Tucker Carlson is right:

It is hard to believe, but truth can still prevail in this country over the monstrous progressive lying machine. Despite the best efforts of the media, it turns out that you can’t always ruin a person because you hate the color of their skin and their politics.

My TAC colleague Declan Leary has a sulfuric column about all this. I really like this graf:

The great tragedy of Kenosha is that, in a matter of days, civilization collapsed so fully that the only people willing to stand against chaos were teenagers and twenty-somethings who barely knew how to shoot, much less how to fight, and not at all how to establish or maintain control. That is the reason people died, and the reason Kyle Rittenhouse will spend the rest of his life with the weight of having killed them: the wholesale dereliction of basic duty by an ineffectual government, and the inability of the whole society to form men as capable as they are willing to step into the breach. Once the regime finally crawled out of its bunker, with whole sections of the city turned to ash, the best it could manage was to send some effeminate mediocrity to prosecute the youngest of the LARPers for killing a pedophile and a wife-beater in ham-fisted self-defense.

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