The Anti-Semitism Apologists

Control the narrative and you control the consequences—that is the operating assumption of America's political and cultural elite these days. It's a strategy that works so long as the media play along and facts don't undermine the feelings that the narrative feeds. Remember actor (and outspoken anti-Trump tweeter) Jussie Smollett? He told a story that a lot of people on the left wanted to believe—namely, that racist, homophobic white men in MAGA hats were roaming the streets of Chicago randomly attacking people like him. To those who expressed doubts about the story, Jussie supporters questioned their motives (and threw around accusations of racism). It was only weeks later, when Chicago police made the dominant narrative impossible to believe by arresting Smollett for perpetrating a hoax, that the original victim narrative collapsed.