Democrats are now the riot party
By Buck Sexton, opinion contributor — 07/23/20 05:00 PM EDT
For almost two months, the city of Portland has been under siege from antifa and other extremists. These shock troops of the left terrorize Portland’s downtown every night. They move en masse with paramilitary precision; as organized anarchists, they deploy a wide array of less-than-lethal weapons to wound police, ranging from bats and bricks to lasers shot in the eyes of officers to permanently damage their sight. All of this is in furtherance of their goal to overturn our society and radically transform America.
If the news media cared to tell the American people the truth, this would have been a top story on nightly broadcasts for weeks. The black-clad antifa rioters even tried to break into and burn down a federal courthouse. Their campaign of intimidation and destruction is plainly domestic terrorism. But the only reason the siege of Portland has become a major news story is because the Trump administration is trying to restore law and order to the beleaguered city, and Democrats hysterically oppose any such action.
President Trump has sent in federal reinforcements to Portland. In response, local and congressional Democrats have circled the wagons on behalf of street thuggery. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) referred to federal agents deployed to Portland as “storm troopers.†Other members of her party have talked about these duly sworn federal law enforcement officers as some sort of invading army unwelcome in America’s urban centers. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), deep into his campaign to utterly ruin that city, declared that he would take Trump to court if federal officers were deployed to quell surging violence there.
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