Could Riots Blow Up in Democrats’ Faces?

The leftist riots that have inflicted crippling damage on Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland and are spreading across the country could not have reached this level of chaos without the strong support of the liberal establishment.

Major corporations have ostentatiously backed Black Lives Matter, the Marxist cult inspiring the riots. The liberal establishment media has expended the last of its credibility on doomed attempts to cast the vicious rioters in a positive light. Local Democrat authorities have openly sided with the rioters. Senate Democrats even attempt to prevent federal troops from maintaining order.

This is not about a drug-crazed career criminal who died in police custody in Minneapolis. This is a power grab on the part of liberal elitists, a show of intimidating force intended to guarantee Trump is not reelected. But might it blow up in their faces?

The MSM spin that the mayhem results from a few agitators hijacking righteous protests does not pass the laugh test. Video accounts of what is actually happening are readily available on the Internet. Anyone who takes part in the riots is a rioter, whether or not they personally throw rocks at the police or set buildings on fire.

Tucker Carlson’s characterization of the rioters as “Biden voters” will get more traction than Jerrold Nadler’s arrogantly absurd assertion that Antifa rioting is a myth.

Progressives act as if this were the end game. They don’t have to corrode America by increments anymore; they just have to get Biden into office and they can do what it takes (open borders, voter fraud, abolish the Electoral College) to ensure that no Republican ever wins again.

But can American voters be bullied into giving them more power? Liberals Joe Scarborough and Lanny Davis have both expressed reservations, as did Oakland’s moonbat mayor, Libby Schaaf, after rioters set fire to the Alameda County Courthouse last weekend:

“Vandalizing our downtown gives Donald Trump the images he wants and the justification he seeks to send Federal troops into American cities.”

It may be too late to close the barn door. Democrats were able to fan the flames until the riots engulfed whole cities, but can they still control them?

Schaaf soured on the rioters after they attacked her own home last Tuesday, splashing red paint on the walls, spray-painting their usual graffiti, and setting off fireworks at the house.

Similarly, Seattle’s Jenny Durkan stopped bleating about a “Summer of Love” after Antifa scum targeted her home. She was able to shut down CHAZ/CHOP, but Seattle is hardly under control.

As Thomas Lifson puts it,

The Democrats, including the Biden campaign, are riding a tiger. If they attempt to dismount, they will be eaten by the tiger, as Libby Schaaf discovered. Bernie Sanders’s most enthusiastic supporters are still smarting from the Dem establishment handing the nomination to Joe Biden as a front man, and significant numbers of them could peel off if Biden attempts to restrain the rioters, whom he has not even criticized to date. …

President Trump, to their dismay, has played the riots perfectly, with his administration expressing resolve but refraining from oversteps that would hand a Kent State-like massacre, complete with martyrs, to the rioters and their political beneficiaries in the Democrat party.

It can’t be easy to pander to the farthest extremes of the anti-American left for fear of losing the Bernie Bloc, while simultaneously assuring sane people that he will not help the Marxists burn down our country. No wonder they keep Slow Joe in the basement.

Even if his handlers can drag Biden’s half-sentient husk across the finish line, there is no guarantee this will put a stop to the riots. Social unrest may distract Democrats from their likely agenda (gun confiscation, “hate speech” laws, economic ruin via Green New Deal lunacy) until a backlash against the endless violence throws them out of power.

It’s not over yet, so don’t stop fighting.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

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