“The responses to the stabbings in Golders Green help explain how this predicament arose—and why it continues. Even as the victims were still in the hospital, an array of online apologists associated with Britain’s ascendant hard-left explained away the incident and its implications.”

At least The Atlantic can see this with clarity.

We can’t take the first step—admitting there is a problem—because that requires naming the source of the problem.

And we can’t name the source of the problem because that requires admitting the problem stems from that source.

Britain has caught itself in a bind of moral inversion in which it is more concerned with protecting its fantasies about the perpetrators than it is with protecting the victims.