Ken Berwitz
It required only half a minute for the mayor ofPhiladelphia, Democrat Jim Kenney, to achieve national fame. On Friday, analready sensation-crowded day, it fell to the mayor to take part in theofficial pronouncements on the attempted murder of city police officer JesseHartnett, shot and severely wounded as he sat in his patrol car when a would-beassassin emptied his gun at him-13 shots in all.
The mayor\’s comments, so bizarre in their determined denialof the deluge of facts delivered by top police officials standing next to him,were, nonetheless, familiar enough. Americans have learned to expect, afterevery Islamist terror attack, lectures instructing them that such assaultsshould in no way be connected to Islamic faith of any kind.
To hear the mayor of Philadelphia was to grasp, more clearlythan ever, the fury that has led to Donald Trump\’s success in attractingvoters-the fury of citizens who know official lies when they hear them, whetherabout border security, immigration, or the ever-expanding requirements ofmulticulturalist dogma.
Donald Trump was supposed to be over by now.
