Backwards Donuts Shirtless Minivan Dad
The latest L.A. Riots have, so far, brought out fewer of The Masses than of The Assorted Nuts.
The big change in Los Angeles riots between the 1992 Rodney King riot and the 2020 George Floyd riots was that rioters realized there is better stuff to loot in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica than in their own dumpy neighborhoods.
We'll see about this new one.
So far, the 2025 riots in Los Angeles look more restricted in place and participants than the 2020 riots. Looks like mostly a few thousand radical activists plus various nuts. Importantly, so far, few blacks are pitching in on the side of Latino leftists.
Well, we shall see.
In the Various Nuts category brought out by the latest L.A. Riots, there is Backwards Donuts Shirtless Minivan Dad.
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.
Perhaps the shirtless donut man is a little like Clint Eastwood in "Fistful of Dollars" playing both sides. "The Rojos on this side and the Baxters on the other side and me in the middle." He's playing the rioters off with the television reporters.
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