The horrific shooting that left ten people dead in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday has triggered a familiar political routine. First, the media determined that the massacre fit their preferred narrative: A white racist targeted and killed black victims. Had the attack differed in these details, the media would have ignored it, as they did last November when a black racist drove his SUV into an early Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six (white) people and injuring sixty-two others, and again last month when a black racist, who had posted prolifically about a looming race war and his hatred of white people, opened fire on a New York City subway train during rush hour, injuring twenty-nine people but fortunately killing none.
Once the media had determined that the Buffalo shooting fit their narrative, Democrat politicians hurried to exploit the tragedy for their own political purposes. President Joe Biden, who refused to visit the families of the victims in Waukesha because “any president going to visit a political community requires a lot of assets,” has already announced plans to visit the families of the victims in Buffalo. A trip to Waukesha would not have allowed Biden to score political points; a visit to Buffalo will. So Biden has put his assets to work.
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