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The intense anger, threats of violence, and actual violence cascading through America’s progressives over court decisions, legislation, and executive orders that don’t go their way is the consequence of unaccustomed losses by a movement that for 75 years has grown used to victory.

This dynamic is chronicled in the latest book by Seth Barron, a New York Post editorial board member.  “Weaponized: The Left’s Capture and Destruction of America’s Sacred Institutions” is an insightful, witty journey through the left’s manipulation of our politics to secure control over America’s institutions.

Where “Weaponized” really shines is calling out long-held progressive myths for what they are.

It has, for example, long been a foundational precept of the left that in the 1920s and 1930s, New York urban planner Robert Moses intentionally lowered parkway bridges to prevent blacks from using buses to get to the beach. In reality, commercial traffic, including buses, was generally banned from U.S. parkways. New York City was 97% white, 2% black, and 1% Puerto Rican. Even if Moses designed overpasses to prevent buses from efficiently getting to the beach, it wasn’t racially motivated.

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg often promotes another of the left’s favorite canards – that racism was “built into” the national highway system. It’s true that highways went through black neighborhoods, but many also went through white neighborhoods. Barron asks whether the left would have preferred that the explosion of highway construction in the 1950s benefit only whites.

During World War I, blacks began relocating to Northern cities in a mass movement that continued until the early 1970s. In the “Great Migration,” approximately 7 million blacks left the South. As recently as 1940, New York City was about 95% non-Hispanic white. Neighborhoods that are today considered historically nonwhite, including East Harlem, the Tremont area of the Bronx, and Brownsville and East New York in Brooklyn, were largely Jewish and........

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