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Boulevardier's avatar

It might at present be more tame than 2020, but it has demonstrated yet again that Democratic politicians simply will not enforce basic laws or public order if they are sympathetic to these mobs. There's a ton of squawking about Trump's substantially more aggressive approach to illegals and response to various courts, along with the usual mumblings about how it heralds a new authoritarian order. The same people just flat out ignore the anarcho-tyranny that is wielded by the left for its political aims, and to the extent they comment on it they act as though its spontaneous and organic, rather than something that is clearly supported by a network of activist groups whose leadership and funding sources we definitely should not look into.

To the extent that the left is correct that our current political era might result in a substantially stronger executive and reduced participatory democracy, it will be because of stuff like this, where the public clearly wants action and the left is openly trying to thwart the will of the people through minor rebellions and legal action. At some point people don't care how things get done or if its strictly by the book, they just want results and will support whatever person and mechanism that gets it.

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Black rioting and Hispanic rioting are distinct phenomena. The left wants to whip Hispanics into a frenzy over deportations; this summer we will find out if they can. Provoking black riots does not take much, as we have seen.

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