One moment, you’re living your best life, shouting anti-racist platitudes into a bullhorn outside Gracie Mansion in your sensible coat, and the next, someone else living his best life climbs over you and throws a bomb at the police. This is what happened to Walter Masterson as he exercised his constitutional right to signal his virtue outside the residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on March 7. It’s a perfect metaphor for the madness of the last decade, and how performative liberalism runs cover for terrorism, the “propaganda of the deed.”

“As a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone into the city,” Walter Masterson bullhorned at a group of anti-Islam protestors and the NYPD. “You don’t get to come from outside and tell everyone else…”

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At this point, Emir Balat did pretty much that by using Masterson as cover and throwing a bomb filled with shrapnel at the protesters and the police. Federal prosecutors charged Balat and his friend, Ibrahim Kayumi, with terrorism, and the duo said they were inspired by the Islamic State.

Masterson was protesting a stunt by Jake Lang, who was convicted of attacking police with a baseball bat at the Jan. 6, 2021,........

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