The Left’s Renee Good Narrative Has Completely Collapsed. Here’s Why.

No one thinks about this timeline anymore, but it took more than two months after George Floyd died in Minneapolis for a foreign media organization — The Daily Mail — to publish the body camera footage of his arrest and subsequent overdose. Minnesota Democrats had refused to release the video, without explaining why. But it was obvious, in retrospect, why they didn’t release it: The leaked body camera footage was fatal to the official narrative concerning Floyd’s death. It demonstrated that Floyd, because he was in the process of overdosing on a lethal level of fentanyl, was struggling to breathe long before he was on the ground. But by the time the footage was released to the public, in August, it was far too late. Too many people had already been convinced that Floyd had somehow been murdered by a police officer who didn’t cause any physical injury whatsoever to Floyd’s neck or upper body, who was following established procedure, and who knew he was being recorded by an increasingly unhinged mob.

More than five years after the show trial of Derek Chauvin — in which prosecutors deliberately lied about the level of fentanyl in Floyd’s system — the United States is a very different place. BLM and COVID hysteria have completely discredited the corporate press, which no one takes seriously anymore. Daniel Penny managed to walk in New York, even though one of the jurors was wearing a face mask throughout the trial. Donald Trump decisively won the popular vote — an achievement that was unthinkable, according to most political observers. And Trump won a majority of the popular vote by promising, as explicitly as possible, that he would close the border and begin deporting illegal aliens in massive numbers. No matter how unpleasant it may be, Trump explained, it was necessary work. Laws must be enforced. In other words, it’s now much, much more difficult for Democrats to pull off a successful hoax than it used to be. Most Americans support the administration’s agenda. And no one believes the usual liars anymore. And on top of that, we have X instead of Twitter, so you won’t be banished from social media if you tell the truth.