Why Romney Marched
The path that led the Republican senator to march in a Black Lives Matter protest began half a century ago with his father.
The clip was short, but surreal: Mitt Romney—his face wrapped in a white mask, his sleeves rolled at the wrists—marches toward the White House alongside protesters chanting about police brutality. A reporter asks him what he’s doing there, and the Republican senator from Utah responds: “We need to stand up and say that black lives matter.”
When the video appeared on Twitter late yesterday afternoon, it drew a torrent of predictable
