Americans have been rightly horrified this week by a viral video showing innocent bystanders being attacked by a vicious mob of teenagers in Chicago. But while the nation looks on aghast, Chicago’s own mayor-elect seems to be siding with the perpetrators.

Members of the Project 21 black leadership network thankfully see the truth more clearly, and they are speaking out against Johnson’ callousness toward victims and the rule of law.

Whether Mitch McConnell’s boneheaded distinction between African-Americans and “Americans” was a misstatement or something more sinister, the fact remains: America will not benefit from federalizing its elections.

The narrative that continues to be stoked by the radical left is that states all over the country are actively denying blacks the right to vote and only the federal government can stop it. At the center of this controversy is the “oppressive” requirement that all voters be required to produce a valid ID, which will disparately affect black voters because everyone knows blacks are more likely than whites to not have an ID.