Sometimes the most revealing thing about a crisis isn’t what happened.

It’s how the media tries to explain it away.

Or in this case — how desperately they try not to explain it at all.

This week New York City witnessed something that should shock every American who still believes in free speech, equal protection under the law, and the basic idea that bombs should not be thrown at peaceful demonstrators.

Two attackers hurled improvised explosive devices at a group of pro-American demonstrators gathered to protest the repeated shutdown of public areas in the city for formal Muslim prayer gatherings. The protesters were not attacking anyone. They were not threatening anyone. They were exercising the most basic constitutional right Americans possess: the right to assemble and express dissent.

And what happened next tells you everything about the moment we are living in.

Instead of condemning the attack unequivocally, New York’s mayor immediately began explaining that the demonstrators themselves were somehow responsible.

According to the mayor, the people targeted by the explosives were “bigots.”

Think about that for a moment.

Citizens peacefully protesting a public policy — the repeated shutdown of city spaces for organized religious calls to prayer — are labeled bigots.

Meanwhile the people who threw explosive devices at them are treated by the political class as… misunderstood.

But the most astonishing reaction came from the media.

Across multiple outlets, reporters adopted the same oddly evasive tone. They wrote that the “motive remains unclear.” They speculated that investigators were still........

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