Rich Lowry

So if you just basically don't have tolerance for strange guys hanging around with loitering in masks in places they shouldn't be, this might not happen.

I have a friend who was nearly attacked by someone in New York City.

It was in a public park where a bunch of kids were out drinking.

He was rich.

How do we stop...

things like this from happening.

Well, you stop the drinking, right?

You stop the drinking and then people are out of control and something worse doesn't happen.

And one reason, Megan, just going back to the foundational point here, that the left can't properly account for these incidents, can't tell the truth about them, can't express the appropriate outrage, is because the wrong people are the victims and the perpetrators, right?

So the

Illegal immigrants are a victim class.

They are high up there in the hierarchy of victims for the left, so they can't process when an illegal immigrant commits a crime like this.

It reminds me a little bit of the Muslim bomb throwers in New York City a couple weeks ago, where all the headlines and a lot of the commentary suggested that it was the anti-Mamdani protesters who must have been responsible for the bombing, right?

Right.

Instead of the Muslim guys shouting out Akbar.

And same thing here.

This guy was a menace, never should have been in the country.

He's an illegal immigrant.

It was a horror and a disgrace.

And they can't get there just because once they hear illegal immigrant and of course, they won't even say that phrase undocumented immigrant.