Op-Ed: Bob Ehrlich: The Media Will Keep Blaming Everything on Trump Until Normal Americans Say ‘Enough!’

My April 5 column argued that three seminal events (COVID-19, George Floyd and Jan. 6) formed the predicate for what can fairly be described as our ongoing cultural revolution.

My thesis did not cover new ground but rather sought to add context as to why things have gone so offline so rapidly.

To wit, how these momentous events lent such energy to three of the left’s favorite narratives: (1) the need for an extensive (federal) government overreach in our daily lives; (2) the need to rein in the alleged epidemic of police violence against minority communities; and (3) the need to combat the undercurrent of white supremacy, perceived especially throughout red America.

As a result, we are daily confronted with a woke campaign of words and actions executed by enabled elites such as campus intellectuals, the mainstream media, Hollywood, Big Tech and (most recently) corporate America.

Its reach is accordingly wide and deep — and unimaginable only 18 short months ago.

Think about that last statement. America circa 2019 would never have accepted replacing police with social workers or allowed criminals to take over entire city blocks or acquiesced to authoritarian lockdowns of schools and businesses far beyond what science dictated or indulged the revisitation of both the First and Second Amendments or agreed to gender-bending elementary school sex instruction or supported an immigration policy that borders on borderlessness or bought into the notion that requiring photo identification in order to cast a vote was