Scarily few people spotted the paradigm shift that inverted justice in 2012. This was the year the liberal left ceded control of the American media and the judicial system to woke activists.
If liberals saw themselves as Atticus Finch, sitting in front of the jailhouse, protecting the falsely accused Tom Robinson, the shrewdly woke saw themselves in the mob out front clamoring for Robinson’s head. Today that’s where the power is.
For nearly a century, leftists satisfied themselves with insisting on the innocence of the obviously guilty. This trend started in the 1920s with the Soviet-led lionization of Italian anarchists Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both ultimately executed for the murder of an Italian-American payroll clerk.