Then again, the GOP under President Trump has already shown a surprising tolerance for criminal justice policy reform; Trump managed to push a prison reform bill that offered inmates credits on time served for good behavior, giving them more of an incentive to behave while incarcerated, while also expanding reentry and jobs programs while also speeding up the judicial process to prevent poor defendants from spending months, or years, in jail awaiting trial because they and their families couldn't afford a few thousand dollars bail. Proponents said the bill righted historical wrongs introduced by the Clinton-era crime bill which ratcheted up sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. Even Obama failed to accomplish that.

But in the narrow narrative being pushed by the radical left, citing "facts" like Trump's prison reform bill or the fact (reported by the Washington Post, which won a Pulitzer for the project) that fewer than a dozen unarmed black men were shot by police in the past year (not the 'thousands' that activists describe as being gunned down in the street by police). In fact, far more young black men are killed by black criminals than by police. Violence on Chicago's streets has only worsened in recent weeks, but no MSM media outlets are willing to give these issues more than a cursory look.

Outside of the big Democrat-dominated cities, many small town officials have been confronted by these emboldened left-wing activists, who have shown up at emergency town council meetings and other venues to try and push for "racist" mayors to resign and make way for an appropriately "politically correct" candidate (or at least a candidate more likely to kowtow to their demands). Many for the first time.