Beltway Media Still Doesn't Understand Where Right Wingers Get Their Ideas

As I've told you, Ron DeSantis spoke to police officers in three states yesterday, hoping to wrap himself in the flag -- in this case, the Thin Blue Line flag -- as he prepares to announce his presidential candidacy. Jonathan Weisman and Emma Fitzsimmons of The New York Times reported on the DeSantis cop tour -- and revealed that they have no idea where right-wing talking points come from:

“We’re grateful to be here to deliver a very important message, a message about safe communities, the rule of law and about standing by the people that wear the uniform and put themselves at risk to protect us,” [DeSantis] told an audience of law enforcement officers at an Elmhurst, Ill., Knights of Columbus hall, outside Chicago, a city that has been demonized as lawless and ungovernable since Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign.

(Emphasis added.)

How can you possibly cover American politics for a living and not realize that the right has been denouncing Chicago as a lawless hellhole since long before Trump ran for president?

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