Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse, and the Progressive Narrative Fail

As the trial wraps up, right-wing kookiness is matched by left-wing delusion

The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who fatally shot two people and wounded a third during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020, has become—like many current events—the subject of two dramatically divergent political narratives.

Some on the right, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson and author and aspiring politician J. D. Vance,…