The editors of the Wall Street Journal, commenting on the use of Homeland Security agents to arrest violent protestors in Portland recommend letting cities suffering from violent disorder stew in their own juices:
We understand Mr. Trump’s desire to restore order, but he’s also saving Democrats from themselves. State and local Democrats will blame federal intervention for any and all disorder, deflecting attention from their own failures. The media will echo whatever they say. Progressives run Portland, Chicago, New York and other cities now experiencing a surge of violence. If they want to indulge the mayhem, then let them live with the consequences.
I’ve been warning about this for months. Mayors can’t abrogate their responsibilities without providing an opening for the use of federal law enforcement. I honestly don’t know what they’re thinking. I can only speculate that they believe that if they just ignore the disorder long enough it will go away. In the long term they’re probably right—ultimately we will all go away. But in the near term? Frankly, I doubt it. And it will provide further impetus from the urban exodus I believe is already under way. There are already lengthy wait times for one-way U-Haul rentals from Chicago. The wait times are likely to become longer.
If you are not making any plans to get out of these cities you really don’t care about your kids.
You’re missing the real source of the riots. They are being instigated and subsidized by local and state officials, because the officials themselves are violent leftist ideologue. Just listen to the mayors of New York, Minneapolis, Portland and others. They are engaged in insurrection, and the BLM/Antifa thugs are their atmy.
Two “reporters on the ground†(as opposed to formal media) types who were interviewed say that Wheeler has actually been harassed by antifa. Their view is that he’s not with antifa and BLM but little boy scared.
That doesn’t make it any better. If true he is so incompetent he should resign. But it’s a different take.
DiBlasio? Well, he’s down with the struggle and NY gets what it deserves. I don’t know what to make of Lightfoot except she appears to be a useful idiot.