I know this makes me unbearably terrible and racist in the eyes of the left, but if hundreds of recent immigrants ganged up repeatedly to sexually assault scores of my fellow citizens, I’d be tossing people out of the country so fast that we’d have to build new roads and buy new trucks just to get them all over the border.

The problem with the left’s tolerance of intolerance is that it doesn’t scale. When 0.25% of your “guests” don’t hold to your values or obey societal norms, it’s ok. When it’s more than 1% or 2% or so, there’s going to be huge problems. When it’s about 15% or so, your society is over even if it doesn’t know it yet.

But yes, it’s racist, even though if a bunch of white people went around assaulting, robbing and raping I would say the same thing.

I like Susan Tedeschi’s version better, but I really enjoy this interpretation too. It’s more country and that feels truer to the song despite less vocal swagger.

Compare and contrast Tedeschi’s version. (And that flute player. Goddamn. I didn’t even know you could play the flute like that.)