Centrist Democrats in Congress (Spanberger et al) can sputter all they want about how bad Black Lives Matter is, but one of today's most underreported stories is how much influence and inspiration the movement has had all over the world, including Europe and the Global South.
Personally, it serves as the reminder to me (of which I am constantly in need) that movements are the leaders and partisan politics is the follower. That was true of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as well as Black Lives Matter and, say, Occupy Wall Street in this century.
This is not to pooh-pooh the importance of politics. I am encouraged more than I expected to be by some of President Biden's proposals. But he and the Democratic political class aren't pulling the people into these positions. Rather, they have been pushed there by the activists.
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