News pouring out of Minneapolis these last few weeks is generating a strange sense of déjà vu.

Once again, protests in that midwestern city are saturating Americans with emotion — intense, performative and increasingly untethered from reality.

On social media, in particular, it feels like 2020 all over again.

Check out Instagram and you’ll see a rolling broadcast of distress: long captions about trauma, solemn declarations that this moment is unlike anything we’ve seen before and constant reminders that to look away is to fail.

Well-meaning people of all political persuasions, women above all, have succumbed to an irrational empathy that’s strangling any hope of reasoned debate on law enforcement and illegal immigration.

It’s not just a few overheated activists or fringe influencers: Lifestyle accounts, parenting feeds, wellness spaces, and for-profit brands that normally stay well away from political discourse are caught up in the emotional excess. 

“It’s OK if meal planning feels hard today,” went a post this week from Whole30, a company that offers guidance on elimination diets. “We just watched our government brutally murder a man in the streets.”

“Surely a great nation can enforce its immigration laws without terrorizing the........

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